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  • Election 2021 Live Updates: Amit Shah to handle six public rallies in Bengal at present

    EC frowned on this however makes use of martyr icon in its Bengal advert
    The Election Commission Saturday invoked the armed forces in its print commercial urging West Bengal’s electors to return out and vote, even because it advises political leaders and candidates to desist from making any reference to Defence personnel of their ballot marketing campaign.
    The advert that appeared on the day of the fourth section of polling shows the silhouette of the ‘Amar Jawan Jyoti’ and a sketch of cartoonist RK Laxman’s ‘Common Man’ as paying homage to the fallen soldier. The advert asks the reader: “They sacrifice for their country. Can’t you even vote for the country?”
    It then goes on to state, “Vote is not only your right, but also your duty. Cast your vote fearlessly.”
    The Amar Jawan Jyoti was constructed after the 1971 warfare to commemorate the martyred and unknown troopers of the Indian armed forces who died through the warfare.
    In run-up, Mamata slammed Central forces, urged voters to ‘gherao’ them
    THE demise of 4 folks in firing by the CISF in “self-defence”, throughout polling in Cooch Behar in north Bengal on Saturday, comes after days of buying and selling of expenses between the Trinamool and BJP over the presence of Central forces for the elections.
    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has repeatedly accused the Central forces of appearing on the behest of the Centre (learn the BJP) and of atrocities. She has even urged folks to “gherao” the forces in the event that they see any “wrongdoing”. The BJP, together with Home Minister Amit Shah, has repeatedly harassed their “patriotism”. Senior Trinamool chief and minister Rabindranath Ghosh on Friday advised voters to go to polling cubicles with lathis, to protect towards the CRPF “creating disturbance”.
    Bengal Elections: Amid violence, 76% turnout in 4th section
    Fourty-four Assembly seats in West Bengal recorded a 76.16 per cent voter turnout within the fourth section of voting until 5pm on Saturday, a day marked by the demise of 5 individuals in two separate incidents in Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar district.
    Cooch Behar recorded 79.93 per cent votes, adopted by Hooghly’s 76.02 per cent, South 24 Parganas’s 75.49 per cent, Howrah’s 75.03 per cent and Alipurduar’s 73.65 p.c.
    “Apart from the two incidents in one district, the poll was conducted peacefully,” stated Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Aariz Aftab.
     

  • UP’s IAS officers to conduct elections in Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry

    Assembly elections have been introduced in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala Assam and Puducherry. Working within the midst of issues within the Corona period, the Election Commission has determined to conduct voting in eight phases in West Bengal and in three phases in Assam. .

  • Kerala: RSS employee killed in conflict with SDPI members

    AN RSS employee was hacked to loss of life allegedly by members of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), the political wing of Popular Front of India, throughout a conflict in Alappuzha district on Wednesday night time.
    Police recognized the sufferer as Nandu alias Rahul Krishna, 22, the RSS shakha mukhya shikshak at Nagamkulangara in Wayalar village panchayat in Alappuzha. Three activists of the RSS and SDPI have been severely injured within the conflict. A powerful contingent police was deployed within the space to stop escalation of violence.
    According to the police, the SPDI held a gathering at Nagamkulangara two days in the past as a part of their state-wide protest and boycott marketing campaign towards Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who was in Kasaragod final Sunday to flag off the BJP’s Vijay Yatra, a state-wide pre-poll political tour. The SDPI staff had raised provocative slogans towards the BJP.

    On Wednesday, the SDPI performed one other political marketing campaign march within the village. The RSS had objected to the alleged provocative speeches. Later within the night time, each side took out separate marches. The police mentioned the RSS staff have been attacked after the SDPI march, resulting in clashes and loss of life of one of many RSS staff.
    The BJP referred to as a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Alappuzha district on Thursday.

  • Kerala Election 2021 Opinion Poll: LDF predicted to interrupt 40-year jinx by returning to energy

    The CPM-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) will return to energy in Kerala with a easy majority if elections had been held now, a survey has predicted.
    Since 1980, no incumbent occasion or coalition has been voted again to energy within the state.
    According to the Asianet News-CFore survey, the LDF is prone to get 72-78 seats within the 140-member Assembly. The half-way mark is 71. The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) is anticipated to finish up with 59-65 seats, an enchancment from its 2016 tally of 47 seats. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will end in third place with 3-7 seats.
    The survey predicted that the LDF will make good points over the UDF in northern and southern Kerala whereas the UDF will probably be dominant within the central components of the state.

    Around 39% of the respondents stated they needed to see Pinarayi Vijayan return because the chief minister of the state. While 18% opted for former CM and Congress chief Oommen Chandy, his colleague and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor bought 9% votes. Health Minister KK Shailaja bought 7% votes, adopted by Congress chief of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala and BJP state president Okay Surendran with 6% votes.
    As per the survey, 34% of the respondents stated the LDF authorities’s largest achievement was distributing the free meals kits in the course of the Covid-19 lockdown. 27% of the respondents voted for welfare pension and 18% stated they appreciated the federal government’s Covid-19 administration. At the identical time, 34% of the surveyors stated the federal government’s largest failure was dealing with the Sabarimala agitation in 2018.

    In June final yr, an identical survey by Asianet News-CFore had additionally predicted that the LDF would come again to energy if elections had been held then. In the native physique polls in December, the LDF exceeded expectations by successful a majority of the panchayats, block panchayats, district panchayats and firms.

  • Central police forces will play a higher position in poll-bound states: CEC

    The Election Commission Thursday mentioned central forces will play a bigger position in poll-bound states together with Tamil Nadu to make sure equity within the voting course of.
    Speaking in Chennai forward of the Tamil Nadu polls, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora additionally mentioned Special Expenditure Observers can be despatched to the state to deal with the persistent difficulty of money distribution amongst voters. The EC has additionally determined to increase polling hours within the state by an hour, he mentioned.
    Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry are more likely to go to polls in April or May. During polls in all of the 5 states, the Central Armed Police Forces coordinator can be a part of the panel that allocates and decides on the deployment and motion of personnel.

    Arora acknowledged that the central forces will play a key position in guaranteeing a free and honest election including that the choice was taken primarily based on suggestions from political events. He mentioned the extension of polling hours was additionally primarily based on ideas from political get together representatives and the present bodily distancing norms.
    Arora mentioned the 2 Special Expenditure Observers being despatched to stop the distribution of cash to voters can be retired officers from senior authorities positions corresponding to Secretary to the Government of India or Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes.
    The CEC mentioned the fee will enable postal ballots for residents above 80 years even when there have been differing opinions from events in Tamil Nadu, claiming there was no malpractice on this regard throughout the Bihar polls.
    He acknowledged that the EC expects a a lot larger voter turnout than regular. There can be 25,000 extra polling cubicles in Tamil Nadu contemplating the pandemic.
    The bypoll to the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat, the place the seat fell vacant following the dying of Congress MP H Vasanthakumar final 12 months, additionally can be held alongside the Assembly polls.

    The high official expressed displeasure over the work by some regulatory arms of the Tamil Nadu authorities forward of the notification of state polls. “When we had the meeting of the regulatory agencies, I must say we were quite unhappy with the overall performance of the state excise department as well as the Special DG enforcement. We have brought the relevant facts to the notice of the Chief Secretary.” Arora mentioned the EC was upset about non apprehension of the ‘big fish’.