WB Panchayat Election 2023 Voting Live: Voting was held on Saturday (July 8) for the Panchayat elections in West Bengal. During this, violent incidents came to the fore from many districts. A total of 15 people died in the violent clashes. Since then, all political parties in the state are accusing each other of this.
After the polling was over, State Election Commissioner (SEC) Rajeev Sinha had said on Saturday evening that after receiving reports from supervisors and returning officers, he would look into complaints of vote tampering and decide on re-polling in violence-hit places.
In view of the violence during polling, the West Bengal State Election Commission on Sunday (July 9) announced that re-polling would be held on Monday (July 10) in all booths where polling for rural elections was declared cancelled. Is. The SEC held a meeting on Sunday evening to study the reports of vote tampering and violence.
Voting is to be held at a total of 604 booths.
Officials said that among the districts where re-polling was announced, Murshidabad has the maximum number of 175 booths, followed by Malda with 112 booths. Repolling will be held in 89 booths in violence-hit Nadia, while repolling will be held in 46 and 36 booths in North and South 24 Parganas districts. Voting is to be held at a total of 697 booths today.
Voting will be done under the supervision of central security forces
Tell that, on Saturday, voting was held for 74 thousand panchayats. During this, there was a lot of violence and incidents of fighting, booth looting and arson at polling booths came to the fore. Many people also died in the violence and many people were injured.
Now, marking many booths, the Election Commission has decided to conduct re-voting today. Preparations have been completed for this. Voting will be done under the supervision of central security forces.
