Raymond Bailey POETRY
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On 28 March, the ECI stated that 56 bombs were seized from Narendrapur of South 24 Parganas district.During the nomination filing by the BJP candidate in Bijpur, gunshots were fired and later clashes broke out between BJP and TMC staff.On 30 March, Ashok Dinda, BJP's candidate from Moyna, Purba Medinipur, was attacked and his vehicle vandalised during a campaign.He claimed that hundreds of people wielding lathi and rods hurled stones at his vehicle.Dinda's shoulder was injured.On 2 April, the West Bengal Police seized 41 crude bombs in Bhangar.During the third phase of polling (6 April), Sujata Mondal, TMC candidate in Arambag, was attacked by some goons at Arandi-I booth 263.During the third phase of polling, electronic voting machines and VVPAT machines were found in the house of a TMC politician of North Uluberia.The sector officer was later suspended.The TMC accused the BJP of distributing cash coupons among people to lure them to attend Modi's rally.In the fourth phase of polling, there were two major instances of violence, both in the Sitalkuchi constituency of the Cooch Behar district.In Pathantuli, a first-time voter, Ananda Barman, was shot and killed by unknown assailants after casting his vote.Both BJP and TMC claimed he was one of their workers, but family members said he was a belonged to BJP.In Sitalkuchi, CISF personnel who were guarding a polling station in Jorepatki shot and killed four Muslim villagers, who they alleged were part of a mob attacking them.They claimed the mob attacked them over rumours the security forces had thrashed a local boy and they fired in self-defence.The families of the deceased claimed the firing was deliberate, and that they were in a queue to vote.Media staff found video footage from local sources, but Special
Police Observer Vivek Dubey called it fake without citing any proper reason.On 8 April the ECI issued a notice to Adhikari for communal overtones in his 29 March speech in
Nandigram, where he derogatorily referred Mamata Banerjee (who is unmarried) as begum ("a married Muslim woman", thereby indicating that she was characterless).In his reply to the ECI notice, Adhikari claimed that he never made any personal attack or derogatory remarks against any political leader, but on 13 April, the ECI issued another warning to him for making derogatory statements in his speech.On 12 April, the ECI imposed a 24-hour campaign ban on Mamata Banerjee (effective from 8 pm) for calling out female voters to gherao (or encircle) the CRPF, CAPF and CISF forces on election duty if they "created any obstruction in their right to vote" from a political rally in Cooch Behar district.The next day, the TMC Supremo staged a solitary dharna next to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Mayo Road crossing in Kolkata to protest against the ECI's decision.On the same day, the ECI let Adhikari go with only a warning after he commented that voting in favour of Mamata Banerjee would convert West Bengal into a "mini-Pakistan", which led the TMC to allege that the ECI was operating in a biased manner to benefit BJP.On 13 April, the ECI imposed a 48-hour campaign ban on former state BJP president Rahul Sinha for endorsing the killing of Muslims in the Sitalkuchi firing incident, and calling for more Muslims to be killed throughout the state in similar manner.On the night before the fifth phase, a picture of the BJP candidate for Ranaghat having lunch with central forces spread on the internet.In the fifth phase of polling, in the Shantinagar locality of Bidhannagar, bricks and stones were hurled between TMC and BJP booth workers, leaving eight people injured.BJP candidate Gopal Chandra Saha was shot at while campaigning in Maldaha, and was admitted to a hospital.In Jalpaiguri, after polling ended, four BJP agents were found with central force personnel carrying electronic voting machines.On 24 April, Mamata Banerjee revealed details of the WhatsApp chat of an election observer employed by the ECI with BJP leaders,
and said, "The Commission is instructing to arrest our party leaders before the [day of]
election.I have WhatsApp chat of everything.Observers have spoken among themselves [about this]."She advised Anubrata Mandal, TMC's Birbhum district president, to go to the courts if the commission wrongfully keeps him under surveillance.The ECI put Mondal under "strict surveillance" for 62 hours from 5 pm on 27 April to 7 am on 30 April.)On 29 April, during the eighth phase of voting, crude bombs were hurled near Mahajati Sadan in northern Kolkata.== Results ==
The election results for 292 constituencies was announced on 2 May 2021 after counting of votes began at 8:00 am (UTC+5:30), while the results for 2 constituencies was delayed until 3 October.=== Results by party ===
Declared on 2 May 2021:
Declared on 3 October 2021:
=== Alliance-wise results ===
=== Results by polling phase ===
=== Region-wise results ===
=== Constituency-wise results ===
== Controversies ==
Communist Party of India (Marxist) supporters and leaders accused No Vote To BJP campaign and CPIML Liberation of leading to the victory of All India Trinamool
Congress.Relations between CPIM and CPIML Liberation weakened after 2021 West Bengal Legislative Election.=== No Vote To BJP campaign ===
No Vote To BJP was a non-partisan, Anti-BJP political campaign in West Bengal.
