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ALL SET FOR PANCHAYAT POLLS AMID VIOLENCE IN WEST BENGAL
The Daily Guardian
|July 08, 2023
A mid widespread violence and killings, rural West Bengal braces for the crucial three-tier panchayat polls on Saturday, which serve as a litmus test for the 2024 parliamentary elections and hold the power to reshape the state's political landscape. Around 5.67 crore voters are likely to exercise their franchise to choose representatives for nearly 928 seats across 22 zilla parishads, 9,730 panchayat samities, and 63,229 gram panchayat seats.
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Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and the party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee led the party's campaign while stressing the need to shun strong-arm tactics by its cadres and allow more democratic space to the political opponents to avoid the rerun of the 2018 rural polls, when it had won around 34 percent of the seats uncontested.
BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar, national vice president Dilip Ghosh, and leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari led the saffron party's campaign, whereas state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and CPI(M) state secretary Mohammed Salim led their parties' respective poll drives.
This story is from the July 08, 2023 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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