BJP claims at least 45 killed in Bengal panchayat polls, calls Mamata 'ruthless'

The BJP on Tuesday slammed the Trinamool Congress government over the statesponsored violence during the West Bengal panchayat polls terming Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ruthless and claiming that at least 45 people have died in the clashesViolence rocked the July 8 rural polls leaving 15 dead while ballot boxes were vandalised ballot papers burnt and bombs thrown at rivals in several placesRepolling was held on Monday in 696 booths across 19 districts where voting was declared void amid allegations of ballot box tampering and violenceAs counting began on Tuesday and initial trends started pouring in the BJPs national spokesperson Sambit Patra claimed the ruling TMCs dadagiri politics was on even on the day of ballot countingThe BJPs counting agents and that of other opposition parties were being stopped from visiting the counting centres he claimed at a press conference in the national capital and termed the poll violence unprecedentedGoing by media reports at least 45 people were killed during the panchayat poll violence Bombing bogus voting and rigging are the most used words in media reports This is nirmamata ruthlessness and not mamata endearment Patra chargedThese are statesponsored institutionalised murders Nirmam Bandyopadhyay ruthless Mamata Banerjee who used to talk maa maatimanush is being a mute spectator he allegedThe BJP vehemently condemns the poll violence and murder of democracy in West Bengal Patra saidHe also hit out at the Congress Left and other parties accusing them of being silent on the matter Where are Lalu Yadav Nitish Kumar Rahul Gandhi and other leaders of Maha Thug Bandhan Not a word from them so far the BJP leader askedPatra alleged the Congress top leadership and Gandhi who were opening mohabbat ki dukan shop of love are silent on the panchayat poll violence in Bengal even though local leaders of the party claimed that their workers were killedRahul Gandhi is not talking about his mohabbat ki dukan because his mega mall of ambition is open He is silent on poll violence in West Bengal because he wants to become ruler of the country by hook or by crook the BJP leader chargedThese people can so easily afford the death of democracy but not the death of their ambitions he addedPatra said the Supreme Court had called for holding free and fair elections in West Bengal with the deployment of central forces But the state government did not deploy central forces properly he claimed adding Data on sensitive polling booths were not shared with the central forcesHe claimed that a large number of people have fled West Bengal out of fear and have taken shelter in Assam Is this democracy Mamata ji the BJP leader askedAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that over 100 people from West Bengal have taken shelter in his state fearing for their lives because of the panchayat election violence back homeYesterday 133 individuals who feared for their lives due to violence in the panchayat election in West Bengal sought refuge in Dhubri district of Assam We have provided them with shelter in a relief camp as well as food and medical assistance Sarma tweetedPatra said elections and violence have become synonymous in West BengalDuring the 2018 Panchayat elections in West Bengal the death toll was 23 During the 2013 Panchayat elections in the state around 15 people were killed Truly democracy is being murdered in West Bengal he chargedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever