West Bengal Election 2021 Updates on 7-4-21

West Bengal Elections 2021 LATEST Updates: Narendra Modi, who is addressing a demonstration in Howrah district, further said that no social plan will stop if the BJP comes to power and claimed that “Didi is making false claims.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday criticized Prime Minister Mamata Banerjee for seeking a Muslim bloc vote for the TMC, saying that if her party had made a similar appeal to Hindus, it would have been criticized and censored.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed on Tuesday that BJP activists were forcibly occupying the polls and attacking TMC members, including party candidates, and stated that she would not get bogged down with such “intimidating tactics. “.

Addressing a public meeting in the Alipurduar district, TMC Supreme said her party nominee in Arambagh, Sujata Mondal, was chased and hit on the head near a polling place by workers from the saffron party.

Mamata recently called for Muslim unity and said her votes should not be divided. It shows that the Muslim vote bank, which you considered your strength, is slipping out of your hands, Modi said in Cooch Behar on Tuesday.

The TMC supremo also shared a video of an incident at Uluberia in Howrah in which central forces personnel and locals could be seen arguing.

Of the three districts that voted Tuesday, Hooghly had the highest voting percentage at 37.36 percent. Howrah witnessed 36.97 percent of the polls, while South 24 Parganas recorded 32.44 percent.

Of 53 candidates with criminal cases, 43 have declared serious criminal cases against them. Nine candidates have declared cases related to crimes against women.

The Electoral Commission has said that the EVM and VVPAT machines were brought to the residence of the TMC leader by Tapan Sarkar, a sector official in charge of the elections, ANI reported.

Among the three districts that voted Tuesday in the third phase of the Assembly elections, South 24 Parganas registered the highest percentage of voters with 12.89 percent. Howrah witnessed a survey of 9.67 percent, while Hooghly recorded participation of 8.87 percent.

Among the 2015 candidates in phase 3, the TMC and BJP have submitted 31 candidates each, 13 each for the BSP and CPM, seven for Congress, two for the All India Forward Bloc, one for the Socialist Party Revolutionary, 68 independents, and 39 from elsewhere.

Describing the Assembly’s 31 constituencies as “sensitive,” the Election Commission on Monday imposed prohibition orders under Section 144 of the CrPC.

Allegations of corruption in the relief of Amphan and the ISF surge in certain pockets are among the factors that are being closely watched for their potential to affect TMC’s fortunes.

The third phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections will take place on Tuesday amid tight security and COVID-19 protocols.

In this phase, elections will be held in parts of rural Howrah, the Sunderban region, the Diamond Harbor, and Baruipur belts in southern 24 Parganas and parts of the Hooghly district. The third phase of voting will cover a total of 31 electoral districts.

A total of 78,52,425 voters will decide the fate of 205 candidates in the 31 seats. Of these, 39,93,280 are men, 38,58,902 women, and 243 third-gender voters.

In total, 10,871 polling stations have been set up in the electoral districts of the Assembly, where elections will be held from 7 am to 6.30 pm.

At least 618 central forces companies will be deployed in this phase, sources from the Electoral Commission said. PTI, adding that all the stands have been identified as “sensitive”.

The EC assigned the 396 highest companies of the central forces to the 5,544 booths in the three police districts in southern 24 Parganas: Baruipur, Diamond Harbor, and Sundarban.

Key battles

The 16 seats in South 24 Parganas, which will go to the polls in this phase, are the most affected by Cyclone Amphan that hit the state in the middle of last May’s shutdown. Significantly, these are strongholds of TMC, which has a massive grassroots organization, and many are part of Abhishek Banerjee’s Diamond Harbor Lok Sabha headquarters.

However, allegations of corruption in Amphan relief and ISF’s surge in certain pockets are among the factors that are being closely watched for their potential to affect TMC’s fortunes.

The seven seats going to the polls in Howrah, another TMC stronghold in its South Bengal stronghold, are mainly in the rural areas of the district. The TMC won 15 of the 16 seats in this district in the 2016 assembly elections. However, the change of state minister Rajib Banerjee, a senior TMC leader of the district, to the BJP before the elections is being watched from close by for its potential to influence polls.

Elections for the 294-member West Bengal assembly are being held in eight phases. The first two phases were on March 27 and April 1. Votes will be counted on May 2.