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Resurgence of coronavirus in the country a Modi-made disaster: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday sharpened her attack on the prime minister over the resurgence of Covid-19, terming it a Modi-made disaster and demanded that he quit if unable to provide adequate medical supplies to combat the disease. She alleged that 65 per cent of the drugs manufactured in the country for tackling the pandemic have already been exported. The Covid-19 pandemic had subsided in the country but has surged in a second wave owing to the monumental failure of the central government and negligence and total incompetence on its part, she said addressing public meetings at Chanchal in Malda and at Harirampur in Dakshin Dinajpur
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Polling officials check Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and other materials at a distribution centre, on the eve of sixth phase of West Bengal Assembly Polls.
Over one crore voters in West Bengal will decide the political fate of 306 candidates today (April 22), when 43 assembly constituencies go to polls in the sixth phase, amid a raging second wave of COVID-19. Security measures have been heightened in view of the violence in the previous phases, particularly the death of five people in Cooch Behar in the fourth phase of polling on April 10, an Election Commission official said.
West Bengal Assembly Election Phase 6 polling today
Mamata Banerjee sharpened her attack on PM Narendra Modi over the resurgence of COVID-19
Chanchal, West Bengal:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday sharpened her attack on the Prime Minister over the resurgence of COVID-19, terming it a Modi-made disaster and demanded that he quit if unable to provide adequate medical supplies to combat the disease.
She alleged that 65 per cent of the drugs manufactured in the country for tackling the pandemic have already been exported. The COVID-19 pandemic had subsided in the country but has surged in a second wave owing to the monumental failure of the central government and negligence and total incompetence on its part, she said addressing public meetings at Chanchal in Bengal s Malda and at Harirampur in the Dakshin Dinajpur districts.
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KOLKATA: Her first request to hold the last three phases of Assembly polls together was turned down. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday again urged the Election Commission to truncate the process, suggesting that things be wrapped up in two days, to check the spread of Covid-19.Vocal as usual against Narendra Modi and BJP and accusing them of spreading the disease in Bengal, Mamata also demanded that central security personnel on election duty be subjected to RT-PCR tests.
Around 1,100 companies of Central forces from CISF, BSF, CAPF and police from other states are on duty in Bengal elections from March 27 to April 19.