Team News Riveting
Kolkata, July 9
West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Sunday flew to New Delhi, where he is likely to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
According to officials, he will submit a report on the violence that took place during the panchayat elections in the state. At least 15 people were killed in violence during polling in the state on Saturday.
Official said the meeting between Shah and Bose could take place on Monday morning.
The Governor had visited various places, mostly in North 24 Parganas district, and took stock of the situation on Saturday during the polling. He also met the family members of the injured persons and had also visited the hospital.
The opposition BJP in West Bengal on Sunday alleged that the central forces were not deployed “deliberately” during the panchayat elections, inviting a sharp retort from the ruling TMC which said there was no guarantee that violence would not have happened if the forces were deployed.
BJP national Vice President Dilip Ghosh said if the central forces were deployed in sensitive places, there would not have been so much violence, and people could have exercised their franchise freely and without fear.
The West Bengal State Election Commission (SEC) announced that repolling will be held on Monday in all booths where voting for the rural elections has been declared void.
The SEC, which held a meeting on Sunday evening, went through reports of vote-tampering and violence which affected polling in many places, and passed the order, an official said.
