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SEC conducted re-election at 696 stations in 19 districts, a day after the Saturday's 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.