Meanwhile, BJP candidate from Debra Assembly seat, Bharti Ghosh, accused TMC of holding the polling agent hostage.
Kolkata| Voting has started for the second phase election on Thursday in 69 seats of West Bengal and Assam. According to the Election Commission, as of 9 am, 13.14% of the voter turnout has been recorded in Bengal and 10.51% in Assam. The high profile Nandigram seat of the Bengal elections is also voting in the second phase. The fight in this seat is between CM Mamata Banerjee and former minister Suvendu Adhikari. This seat has been the most in focus since the election campaign started.
Meanwhile, BJP candidate from Debra Assembly seat, Bharti Ghosh, accused TMC of holding the polling agent hostage. She said that the polling agent was surrounded by 150 goons of Trinamool in booth number 22, zone-1 in Nawapara. He was not allowed inside the polling booth. She said that voters are being intimidated in Barunia. They are being forced to vote on TMC’s election symbol.
Mamata Banerjee – Suvendu Adhikari’s credibility in Nandigram at stake
For Mamata, this seat is a matter of her self-respect, as Suvendu Adhikari has claimed to defeat Mamata by 50 thousand votes. Suvendu has said that if he cannot beat Mamata, he will leave politics. He left the TMC in December last year and joined the BJP. Being a high profile seat, the chances of violence in Nandigram are also high, so Section 144 has been imposed here.
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BJP candidate Suvendu Adhikari from Nandigram seat cast his vote. After casting his vote, he said that BJP and promise of development would win. “A wave of change is going on all over Bengal. Mamata Banerjee’s government caused unemployment, votes are being held against it. There should be 80-85% turnout and there should be no violence,” he said.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tweeted in Bangla and appealed to people to vote in maximum number. In West Bengal, there were reports of clashes between BJP-Trinamool workers in South 24 Parganas.
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