TMC takes 3-0 lead in panchayat polls

KOLKATA: The ruling Trinamool Congress has started the agricultural ballot race with a Three-0 lead, gaining majority in the zilla parishads of three districts — Birbhum, Mushidabad and East Burdwan — with no single vote being forged.


It has won all of the 42 zilla parishad seats unopposed in Birbhum, leaving the opposition to box applicants best in three blocks of the district. It has also received a majority in Adhir Chowdhury’s turf Murshidabad and the once-CPM bastion of East Burdwan. The party won 48 of the overall 78 zilla parishad seats in Murshidabad and nine of 11 seats in East Burdwan.

The victory, alternatively, used to be sullied through charges of violence and intimidation towards the Trinamool because the start of the nomination procedure on April 2. The ballot procedure claimed but another life on Saturday, in West Burdwan’s Bhatar, which changed into the 6th fatality in the run-up to the polls. The Bhatar demise came hours after another killing in Joynagar in South 24-Parganas.

A 58-year-old guy died in a cross-fire between two Trinamool groups while returning home along with his week’s ration when a bomb hit his face, leaving it completely disfigured, in Bhatar’s Bhumsor village. Victim Ramzan Mollah fell prey to the alleged intra-Trinamool factional feud over nominations. On a grievance through the victim’s family, police arrested three folks.


In West Midnapore’s Narayangarh, Trinamool block president Mihir Chanda used to be beaten up through his personal party men. Former Trinamool gram pradhan of Keshpur Sanjay Kar used to be allegedly kidnapped through his rival group in the tussle over nomination in the rural polls.


Opposition applicants in the fray from BJP to SUCI made the allegations from across districts to the SEC all the way through the day at the ultimate day of withdrawal on Saturday. “Trinamool is scared folks. Even our applicants in the three blocks of Birbhum aren't secure. We needed to shift them to a secure position at Bankura,” said BJP state president Dilip Ghosh.


Trinamool toughs allegedly attacked CPM central committee member Amiya Patra’s space in Bankura town.


Miscreants hurled bombs on the in-laws of Priyanka Ghosh, the Congress gram panchayat candidate from Borbadpur village in Murshidabad’s Daulatabad. An SUCI feminine candidate from Burdwan’s Katwa complained that 75-80 Trinamool men had been going to her space for the ultimate three days and placing force on her aged parents to make her take again her papers.
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