Kolkata Repolls

Fresh polling is underway today at over 600 booths across 19 districts of West Bengal where voting for panchayat elections was declared void amid allegations of tampering with ballot boxes and the violence that left 15 people dead, officials said.

Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation on Sunday hold a sit-in strike inside the State Election Commissioner Office, demanding repolling for Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) election.

Last Saturday, 70 per cent voters turned out at civic polls in Salt Lake, an upscale Kolkata township. But today, at re-polls, only 30 per cent turned up to vote. Re-polls were held at nine booths only out of 438 after allegations that the Trinamool Congress had rigged the polls with outsiders.

The newly appointed State Election Commissioner of West Bengal today ordered re-polls in 9 out of the 438 booths in Kolkata's Salt Lake and at 2 in Asansol. The opposition called it a farce, gheraoed the commissioner as he was leaving his office. A united opposition of the Left, Congress and the BJP has also decided to boycott the re-polls. Counti...

Re-polls to civic bodies in West Bengal will not take place today. Other than that confirmation, the civic poll process that began on Saturday seems out on a limb.

Fresh polling is underway today at over 600 booths across 19 districts of West Bengal where voting for panchayat elections was declared void amid allegations of tampering with ballot boxes and the violence that left 15 people dead, officials said.

Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation on Sunday hold a sit-in strike inside the State Election Commissioner Office, demanding repolling for Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) election.

Last Saturday, 70 per cent voters turned out at civic polls in Salt Lake, an upscale Kolkata township. But today, at re-polls, only 30 per cent turned up to vote. Re-polls were held at nine booths only out of 438 after allegations that the Trinamool Congress had rigged the polls with outsiders.

The newly appointed State Election Commissioner of West Bengal today ordered re-polls in 9 out of the 438 booths in Kolkata's Salt Lake and at 2 in Asansol. The opposition called it a farce, gheraoed the commissioner as he was leaving his office. A united opposition of the Left, Congress and the BJP has also decided to boycott the re-polls. Counti...

Re-polls to civic bodies in West Bengal will not take place today. Other than that confirmation, the civic poll process that began on Saturday seems out on a limb.