5 killed in post-poll violence in West Bengal Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
Five people were killed in separate incidents of post-assembly poll violence and arson in various parts of West Bengal, including in Kolkata, since the results of the elections were declared on Sunday night.
Trinamool Congress won a landslide victory in the elections for the third time in a row while Bharatiya Janata Party finished a distant second.
Four persons were killed in Purbo Bardhaman and one in the state capital, reports our New Delhi correspondent.
Purba Bardhaman district witnessed the killing of four people allegedly in clashes between ruling Trinamool Congress and BJP, official sources said.
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Mamata Banerjee trying to politicise vaccination drive before polls: BJP
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Published: Saturday, January 16, 2021, 22:17 [IST]
Kolkata, Jan 16: Bharatiya Janata Party national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her allegations of fewer vaccines being sent to the state and accused her of trying to politicise the vaccination programme ahead of the assembly polls.
Banerjee during the day expressed her dissatisfaction over inadequate number of COVID-19 vaccines supplied to West Bengal for the inoculation process. She should stop politicising everything. None of the states has complained only she is complaining about it. She is trying to politicise the issue before the assembly polls, Vijayvargiya said.
Banerjee had said that she has already “requested the central government to supply adequate numbers of vaccines for not only the frontline workers but also for all the people of West Bengal”.
Earlier today, two Trinamool Congress MLAs Rabindranath Chatterjee and Subhas Mondal took the vaccine doses in Purbo Bardhaman district today triggering a political row. Inadequate number of COVID-19 vaccines supplied to WB
However, hospital authorities claimed that no rules were violated as the MLAs were members of the Patient Welfare Committees and their names were mentioned in the selected list.
Vijayvargiya had described the incident as “loot” saying the PM sent free vaccines for corona warriors, health workers and frontline workers but in West Bengal, TMC MLAs and goons took the vaccine forcefully.