A Trinamool Congress employee died after exercising his franchise in Hooghly as voting for essential third part of Bengal Assembly elections is underway.
As per the early inputs, the deceased has been recognized as Sunil Roy, the TMC sales space president who died in violence at Hooghly’s Goghat earlier right now. The TMC employee was coming again residence after casting his vote when violent clashes broke out mid-way and Roy was allegedly pushed.
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The state-ruling occasion TMC has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of attacking Roy. The saffron occasion has nonetheless denied all allegations.
In one other incident, TMC candidate Sujata Mondal was additionally attacked by some unidentified miscreats at Arandi-I sales space no.263 Mahallapara. TMC’s Derek O’Brien whereas chatting with media alleged that the ‘goons of BJP attacked Mondal. Her private safety officer has suffered accidents on head & is in a crucial state. CRPF personnel have been silent spectators.”Â
Meanwhile, West Bengal is up for third leg of voting today. Polling has already been done for 60 seats in the first two phases conducted on March 27 and April 1. In this phase of elections, the 31 seats are spread over three districts – eight in Hooghly, seven in Howrah and 16 in South 24 Parganas.
As many as 205 candidates are within the fray with Diamond Harbour having the utmost variety of candidates – 11. The main political events, Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party are contesting all 31 meeting seats.
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