In line with TMC sources, the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration will stress throughout campaigning that events with deeper pockets have a bonus over others relating to multi-phased polling. (PTI/File)
The 42 Lok Sabha seats of West Bengal will likely be voting in all seven phases, starting April 19, together with Uttar Pradesh (80 seats) and Bihar (40 seats). The final part of polling is on June 1, and the votes will likely be counted on June 4
The ruling Trinamool Congress has strongly objected to the Election Fee of India saying a seven-phase polling schedule for West Bengal within the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, saying the ballot physique didn’t keep in mind the state authorities’s views recommending single part voting.
The 42 Lok Sabha seats of West Bengal will likely be voting in all seven phases, starting April 19, together with Uttar Pradesh (80 seats) and Bihar (40 seats). The final part of polling is on June 1, and the votes will likely be counted on June 4.
“We have now seen that voter turnout is extra if there are fewer phases. That’s why we demanded single part polling. Gujarat, Kerala and Tamil Nadu are additionally massive states, however they’re voting in a single part. Then why so many phases for Bengal? That is nothing however a tactic to unfold worry,” TMC minister Chandrima Bhattacharya mentioned.
TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray claimed that this was a disregard for the federal construction of the nation. “State authorities’s views weren’t taken into consideration. It is a disregard for the federal construction. We fail to grasp the explanations for holding such an extended election. That is fairly stunning,” he mentioned.
The TMC additionally questioned the alleged hurried appointment of two election commissioners earlier this week after Arun Goel stop as election commissioner. “They appointed election commissioners in in the future. How is that potential? If one staff taking part in the match appoints the umpire, how do we all know the umpire is not going to be biased?” requested Bhattacharya.
In line with TMC sources, the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration will challenge the seven-phase polling as a ploy to defame Bengal as a violent state. It is going to additionally stress on its declare that events with deeper pockets are over others relating to multi-phased polling. It is going to additionally level out that different states with related geographical measurement and sending across the identical variety of MPs to the Lok Sabha are voting in a single part.
The BJP, however, welcomed the polling schedule.
“We’re glad, however the way in which voters are intimidated right here in Bengal, there ought to be extra phases. Muscle energy is not going to work this time that’s clear,” mentioned BJP state president Sukanto Majumdar.
West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Choudhury, too, welcomed the schedule. “Throughout Panchayat elections, I introduced myself earlier than the total bench of the Election Fee and requested that they assist individuals forged their votes. I’m glad so many phases have been given (to Bengal).”
Sources within the EC cited violence throughout earlier basic and native elections within the state as the explanation for seven-phased polling in Bengal.
