KOLKATA: Eleven extra folks died on Tuesday, a day after Monday’s violence-ridden panchayat ballot, taking the frame count over the past two days to 26. The lifeless incorporated a presiding officer in North Dinajpur. The spectre of violence now looms over Wednesday’s re-polling, ordered for 573 cubicles in all places the state, by means of the State Election Commission.
Both numbers are significant. The final panchayat ballot held in 2013 noticed re-polling at 21 cubicles, which means that that the number of cubicles going for a re-poll this time, 573, could be more than 27 times that number.
The dying toll, too, is essential. The frame count of 26 for Monday and Tuesday — 15 for Monday (eliminating the 2 deaths in South 24-Parganas’ Kakdwip, which the district management stated used to be on account of electrocution and now not hooked up to ballot violence) and 11 for Tuesday — is yet one more than the 25 deaths over 5 days of polling in 2013. One essential clause in the Calcutta High Court’s May 10 order, which stated the SEC and senior state government officers must pay reimbursement for deaths and injury to assets, discussed that this might come into impact if the violence this time exceeded 2013 levels.
There appears to be a correlation between the violence and the number of cubicles going for a re-poll. Only six districts account for approximately 65% (or 362 out of 573 cubicles) of the cubicles that may see re-polling: North Dinajpur (73 cubicles for re-poll) Murshidabad (63), Nadia (60), North 24-Parganas (59), Malda (55) and Coochbehar (52).
These also are the districts that have noticed the most violent polling. SEC officers stated re-polling have been ordered mainly for cubicles the place poll containers were snatched and poll papers were singed or dumped in water and it relied on experiences from presiding and returning officers as well as inputs from district observers. But the state ballot panel has now not ordered any re-poll for a single sales space in South 24-Parganas’ Bhangar.
Opposition events took to more than a few way — criminal and govt — to protest towards the violence. State BJP president Dilip Ghosh wrote to PM Narendra Modi, giving an account of the casualties and the incidents of violence, and BJP applicants and different office-bearers wrote to the SEC, not easy re-poll at 2400 cubicles.
Malda Congress president Mousam Noor has demanded re-polling at 1,000 polling cubicles in the district. Independents, backed by means of the Save Land Livelihood Environment Protection Committee, took out a rally, showcasing the injured in ballot violence and critical re-polling in Bhangar.
Trinamool supporters, on the other hand, staged an illustration in South Dinajpur’s Balurghat towards the SEC decision to carry re-poll at 35 cubicles in the district. Trinamool secretary-general Partha Chatterjee, alternatively, stated the birthday celebration did not have anything towards the SEC. “The three events, the CPM, the BJP and the Congress, came in combination towards the Trinamool but may now not do much. Let them now demand that elections be held under military surveillance with voters being flown in from out of doors Bengal,” Chatterjee mocked.
The CPM and the PDS complained about the violence earlier than the Calcutta High Court department bench of Chief Justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya and Justice Arijit Banerjee, urging the courtroom to take cognisance of the subject suo motu in line with newspaper experiences. Justice Banerjee declined the prayer and requested the events to document petitions, which might have the dying toll and dying certificates and lawsuits lodged at police stations for the courtroom to believe them. Lawyers Rabi Shankar Chatterjee and Md Shamim instructed TOI they'd document the petitions by means of Thursday.
Bengal Congress president Adhir Chowdhury could be submitting a contempt petition on Thursday, Congress attorney Pratik Chatterjee stated. Lawyer Supradip Roy will transfer Chief Justice Bhattacharya’s courtroom on Wednesday, praying to stall the counting of votes on May 17 and also put aside the ballot itself.
Both numbers are significant. The final panchayat ballot held in 2013 noticed re-polling at 21 cubicles, which means that that the number of cubicles going for a re-poll this time, 573, could be more than 27 times that number.
The dying toll, too, is essential. The frame count of 26 for Monday and Tuesday — 15 for Monday (eliminating the 2 deaths in South 24-Parganas’ Kakdwip, which the district management stated used to be on account of electrocution and now not hooked up to ballot violence) and 11 for Tuesday — is yet one more than the 25 deaths over 5 days of polling in 2013. One essential clause in the Calcutta High Court’s May 10 order, which stated the SEC and senior state government officers must pay reimbursement for deaths and injury to assets, discussed that this might come into impact if the violence this time exceeded 2013 levels.
There appears to be a correlation between the violence and the number of cubicles going for a re-poll. Only six districts account for approximately 65% (or 362 out of 573 cubicles) of the cubicles that may see re-polling: North Dinajpur (73 cubicles for re-poll) Murshidabad (63), Nadia (60), North 24-Parganas (59), Malda (55) and Coochbehar (52).
These also are the districts that have noticed the most violent polling. SEC officers stated re-polling have been ordered mainly for cubicles the place poll containers were snatched and poll papers were singed or dumped in water and it relied on experiences from presiding and returning officers as well as inputs from district observers. But the state ballot panel has now not ordered any re-poll for a single sales space in South 24-Parganas’ Bhangar.
Opposition events took to more than a few way — criminal and govt — to protest towards the violence. State BJP president Dilip Ghosh wrote to PM Narendra Modi, giving an account of the casualties and the incidents of violence, and BJP applicants and different office-bearers wrote to the SEC, not easy re-poll at 2400 cubicles.
Malda Congress president Mousam Noor has demanded re-polling at 1,000 polling cubicles in the district. Independents, backed by means of the Save Land Livelihood Environment Protection Committee, took out a rally, showcasing the injured in ballot violence and critical re-polling in Bhangar.
Trinamool supporters, on the other hand, staged an illustration in South Dinajpur’s Balurghat towards the SEC decision to carry re-poll at 35 cubicles in the district. Trinamool secretary-general Partha Chatterjee, alternatively, stated the birthday celebration did not have anything towards the SEC. “The three events, the CPM, the BJP and the Congress, came in combination towards the Trinamool but may now not do much. Let them now demand that elections be held under military surveillance with voters being flown in from out of doors Bengal,” Chatterjee mocked.
The CPM and the PDS complained about the violence earlier than the Calcutta High Court department bench of Chief Justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya and Justice Arijit Banerjee, urging the courtroom to take cognisance of the subject suo motu in line with newspaper experiences. Justice Banerjee declined the prayer and requested the events to document petitions, which might have the dying toll and dying certificates and lawsuits lodged at police stations for the courtroom to believe them. Lawyers Rabi Shankar Chatterjee and Md Shamim instructed TOI they'd document the petitions by means of Thursday.
Bengal Congress president Adhir Chowdhury could be submitting a contempt petition on Thursday, Congress attorney Pratik Chatterjee stated. Lawyer Supradip Roy will transfer Chief Justice Bhattacharya’s courtroom on Wednesday, praying to stall the counting of votes on May 17 and also put aside the ballot itself.
Repolling in 573 Bengal booths; death toll at 26
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