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Repolling has been ordered because of breach of secrecy as some people shot videos of voting on November 17. | Latest News India

Repolling has been ordered because of breach of secrecy as some people shot videos of voting on November 17 at the booth concerned in Kishupura

India News: BHOPAL: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has ordered re-polling on November 21 at a booth in the Ater assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh's .

Tasmanian voters are mixed about a Voice to Parliament as pre-polling heats up in the must-win state. 

Two days after violence erupted in the West Bengal panchayat polls, the State Election Commission will conduct re-polling on 697 booths in five districts on Monday. Proxy voting allegations have also emerged.

SEC conducted re-election at 696 stations in 19 districts, a day after the Saturdays polling in these places was declared void | Latest News India

The re-polling was being held two days after the killing of at least 18 people, allegations of booth capturing, and harassment of poll officials marred the panchayat polls in the state | Kolkata News

The Calcutta High Court on Monday allowed senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to file a petition seeking compensation to victims of panchayat poll violence in West Bengal and an investigation into it by an independent agency. Submitting personally before the bench presided by Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam, Chowdhury, the state Congress president, alleged that entire West Bengal was ravaged by unprecedented violence during the elections held on July 8.

Three political workers died. A Trinamool Congress worker from Murshidabads Raninagar and a CPI(M) activist, who were severely injured and admitted to hospital on the polling day, succumbed to injuries on Monday. In another incident, the body of a local BJP leader from Dhubulia was recovered in Nadia district. Ashto Mondal, was missing since July 4 and his body was recovered from the bushes adjacent to a pond on Monday morning.

The state election commission declared the polling to these constituencies as void, cancelling the candidature of Soomia Sadaf and Shazia Aslam.