West Bengal: Amid elections, by-poll held in Sagardighi
By Express News Service
KOLKATA: Though no incident of violence was reported in Sagardighi by-election in Murshidabad on Monday, each the Congress and the BJP alleged the ruling Trinamool Congress supporters tried to affect voters in lots of locations by violating the election fee’s strict restriction on no meeting inside the 200 metres of polling cubicles.
A by-election within the Assembly constituency, the place the TMC received for 3 straight phrases since 2011, was necessitated after three-time MLA and state minister handed away in December, final 12 months.
TMC activists additionally accused BJP candidate Dilip Biswas of utilizing central pressure to violate norms. Debasish Banerjee alleged he was stopped by the central pressure personnel when he was coming into a polling sales space. Banerjee was nonetheless allowed to enter the sales space after the presiding officer intervened.
The Assembly constituency recorded 73.49 per cent polling until 5 pm.
Flooded by the complaints of unauthorised meeting close to polling premises, the election fee issued a recent instruction to the district administration to comply with the restriction strictly.
Bairun Biswas, the candidate of Congress-Left Front alliance, alleged highhandedness by TMC males. “They were sitting near polling booths with models of EVMs and showing it to the voters asking them press the button of their party. Our supporters tried to stop them but they forced our workers to leave the place. Police, too, stood mute spectators,” he alleged.
KOLKATA: Though no incident of violence was reported in Sagardighi by-election in Murshidabad on Monday, each the Congress and the BJP alleged the ruling Trinamool Congress supporters tried to affect voters in lots of locations by violating the election fee’s strict restriction on no meeting inside the 200 metres of polling cubicles.
A by-election within the Assembly constituency, the place the TMC received for 3 straight phrases since 2011, was necessitated after three-time MLA and state minister handed away in December, final 12 months.
TMC activists additionally accused BJP candidate Dilip Biswas of utilizing central pressure to violate norms. Debasish Banerjee alleged he was stopped by the central pressure personnel when he was coming into a polling sales space. Banerjee was nonetheless allowed to enter the sales space after the presiding officer intervened.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The Assembly constituency recorded 73.49 per cent polling until 5 pm.
Flooded by the complaints of unauthorised meeting close to polling premises, the election fee issued a recent instruction to the district administration to comply with the restriction strictly.
Bairun Biswas, the candidate of Congress-Left Front alliance, alleged highhandedness by TMC males. “They were sitting near polling booths with models of EVMs and showing it to the voters asking them press the button of their party. Our supporters tried to stop them but they forced our workers to leave the place. Police, too, stood mute spectators,” he alleged.
