west bengal

The high-octane Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal reach an exciting third leg on Tuesday.

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Stray incidents of violence marred the second phase of polling in West Bengal on Thursday which saw 76.07 per cent of the 49,38,346 electorate exercising their franchise in three seats where voting took place.

On Thursday morning, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker was found dead in West Bengal’s Purulia district. The BJP worker’s body was found hanging from a tree in Senabona village under Aarsa police station.

The BJP is eyeing the South as well as Odisha and West Bengal in a bid to offset possible losses in the Hindi belt, where its performance in the last general elections in 2014 was stunning.

Over the past fortnight or so, I have been camping in West Bengal for the elections. The campaign has taken me to countless small towns that, in the normal course, I wouldn’t visit.

The Election Commission has slapped a show cause notice on West Bengal’s BJP chief and Lok Sabha candidate Dilip Ghosh for threatening to take off the trousers of a poll panel official who had removed a Ram Nnavami hoarding containing his poster.

BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Sunday said his party has urged the Election Commission (EC) to deploy central paramilitary forces and install CCTVs in all polling booths

With a round of Lok Sabha elections over in West Bengal, the BJP appears upbeat, hoping to make big gains from a state where it has been traditionally weak. The BJPs confidence stems from the hard work it has done in the state for years, supported by other rightwing Hindutva groups in both urban, rural and tribal areas.

National BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Saturday said he is focusing on election in West Bengal but is ready to contest from Indore Lok Sabha seat if party wants.