The Election Commission of India (ECI) has mandated repolling at one polling station each in the Barasat and Mathurapur Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal on Monday, June 3, a day before the final vote count.
The repolling will take place at 61 Kadambagachi Saradar Pada FP School, Room No. 2 of the 120-Deganga Assembly Constituency in the 17 Barasat Parliamentary Constituency, and 26 Aaddir Mahal Srichaitanya Bidyapith FP School of the 131-Kakdwip Assembly Constituency in the 20-Mathurapur (SC) Parliamentary Constituency.
Vote counting for the General Election to Lok Sabha 2024 is scheduled for June 4, 2024. “I am directed to state that on the basis of reports received from the concerned RO/the concerned DEO/the Observers of 17-Barasat PC and 20-Mathurapur (SC) PC regarding poll taken for General Election to Lok Sabha for West Bengal State, 2024, held on 1 June, 2024, and after taking all material circumstances into account, the Commission hereby declares under sub-section (2) of Section 58 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, that the poll taken on 1 June, 2024, for the aforesaid election at the following polling stations (as mentioned in Column 3 of the table below) to be void and appoints 3 June, 2024, as the date and fixes the hours as mentioned in Column (4) of the table below, for taking a fresh poll at the said polling stations in accordance with Commission’s instructions contained in paragraphs 13.62 of Chapter XIII of Hand Book for Returning Officer, 2023,” stated the ECI in a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal.
The final phase of Lok Sabha elections on June 1 saw intense clashes in various parts of West Bengal between supporters of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Indian Secular Front (ISF) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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In Basirhat’s Bayarbari, a clash between TMC and BJP workers occurred amid the seventh and final phase of polling on Saturday. Another confrontation between TMC and BJP workers took place in Meraganj, South 24 Parganas district, resulting in multiple injuries.
Additionally, West Bengal Police faced resistance from local women in Sandeshkhali, Basirhat, while attempting to arrest BJP worker Sadhan Nandi in connection with the violence on Saturday.
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