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There was violence during the panchayat elections in West Bengal.
Central forces will remain deployed in West Bengal for the next 10 days. The Calcutta High Court gave these instructions on Monday. In view of the violence in the panchayat elections, central forces were deployed.
The central government told the court that Out of the total 239 companies present there, 136 companies have been called back.
A bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam said that central forces can be deployed at such places when the state government and the state election commission feel that disturbances are taking place. The central government will be free to call back the central forces as per the action plan.
The court had said on July 12 that a decision would be taken after hearing the petitions of all the candidates. After this, a candidate’s lawyer said – re-polling was held in 696 booths, which is only 0.1 percent of the total booths.
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The results of the panchayat elections held in West Bengal came on 11 July. In the pre-election violence, 36 political murders took place in the entire state in 30 days. Of these, 18 people were killed only on the day of voting i.e. 8th July. People of other parties were hurled bombs, fired upon, dragged out of their houses and killed. All this happened despite the deployment of 59,000 personnel from the Central Armed Police Force and police from other states.
The photo is of North 24 Parganas district. Date 8 July. Voting was held for the Panchayat elections on this day. Meanwhile, workers of two parties clashed with each other in Barasat of the district.
The security forces and the Election Commission are also at loggerheads over the violence. BSF DIG SS Guleria says, “Where the central forces were deployed, there was no violence and we were not informed about the sensitive booths.”
The DIG of BSF was the nodal officer for the deployment of the Central Force. The Calcutta High Court has sought a report from him on the violence. The court has also asked the state government to help the victim’s family for the last rites of those killed in the election violence and to provide treatment to the injured.
On the other hand, State Election Commissioner Rajeev Sinha had said that the responsibility of law and order rests with the district administration. The job of the commission is to handle the entire system.
About 66% voting took place in the Panchayat elections in West Bengal. Due to violence in Murshidabad, Coochbehar, North and South 24 Parganas, re-voting has been done at 697 booths.
West Bengal has a history of violence before the elections, this time why there was violence despite heavy security, we spoke to Biswanath Chakraborty, Professor of Political Science and Political Analyst, Ravindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
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