High turnout, isolated violence, police firing in sixth phase of polling
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The seventh phase of polling is scheduled on April 26 and the final phase is on April 29.
Isolated incidents of violence, together with police firing, had been reported in the sixth phase of polling in West Bengal for 43 Assembly seats throughout 4 districts of the State on Thursday.
West Bengal recorded excessive polling, with about 79.09% voters exercising their franchise by 5 p.m in the sixth phase. Nadia district recorded 82.67% polling, adopted by Purba Bardhaman, which registered 82.15% polling. The polling figures are anticipated to rise.
Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal, Aariz Aftab, stated that the police had fired three rounds after the Office-in-Charge (OC) of the Bagda Police Station, and a constable, suffered sharp lower accidents in an assault by a bunch of 200-250 locals. The police personnel have been admitted to a hospital. The OC and police forces had been rushed to the realm in North 24 Parganas district after the Sector Officer was attacked by locals, the CEO stated. Mr. Aftab stated that at the very least one particular person sustained bullet accidents. Locals stated they’d been fired upon with none provocation.
In one other incident, miscreants lobbed crude bombs close to a polling sales space in Khardah in the identical district. Three particular person sustained accidents, and two individuals had been arrested in reference to the incident. According to the CEO, polling was largely peaceable on Thursday, excepting these two incidents of violence.
Elections had been held at 14,480 polling cubicles in 43 Assembly constituencies, which included 17 in North 24 Parganas, 9 every in Nadia and Uttar Dinajpur districts, and eight in Purba Bardhaman district.
Violence was reported from the Barrackpore industrial area that went to polls in North 24 Parganas. Crude bombs had been lobbed in Jagatdal minutes after polling was over in the night. Earlier in the day, there was violence in Amdanga in the identical district. The state of affairs was risky in Kanchrapara in the identical district, the place Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters clashed with one another. BJP supporters attacked makeshift workplaces of the TMC. A Trinamool Congress supporter was crushed up in Kanchrapara. Two TMC candidates — Raj Chakraborty from Barrackpore and Kaushani Mukherjee, the candidate from Krishnanagar Uttar — had been surrounded by BJP supporters who raised “go back” slogans.
The state of affairs in Ketugram in Purba Bardhaman district turned risky when the car of the BJP candidate was attacked. There was additionally some unrest in Kaliaganj in Uttar Dinajpur district after girl supporters surrounded a police car when the police tried to arrest a miscreant.
Earlier in the day, an unidentified physique was discovered on the Habra Assembly phase, which went to polls on Thursday. A TMC councillor was attacked on the Bijpur Assembly phase throughout the day.
With polling in the sixth phase concluded on Thursday, two extra phases of polling are left in the State. The seventh phase of polling in 36 Assembly constituencies is scheduled for April 26.
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