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Pratima Bhowmik led BJP’s Massive Election rigging across Tripura, EC silent, Police mute spectator : Booths 34/46 at Jirania, 10/13 booth in Assampara captured
TIWN April 11, 2019
Pratima Bhowmik led BJP’s Massive Election rigging across Tripura, EC silent, Police mute spectator : Booths 34/46 at Jirania, 10/13 booth in Assampara captured
PHOTO : Vote begins amid massive poll rigging in Tripura led by West BJP MP candidate Pratima Bhowmik. TIWN Pic April 11, 2019

AGARTALA / JIRANIA, April 11 (TIWN): Massive election riggings were reported from various corners in Tripura along with booth-capturing, which was predicted when BJP MP candidate Pratima Bhowmik during her election speeches had warned to appoint Chowkidars for all booths. After whole night terror, till now 34/ 46 booth in Jirania and 10/13 booth in Assam Para have been captured and around 100 people were bound to return home out of BJP’s open rigging. Security personnel in Jirania and Assampara were just for nameshake. In case of South Tripura, overcoming all fears voters have rushed to booths to cast their votes. Since 7 am Election for West Tripura constituency has been started with terrors after yesterday’s whole night violence. Police and Administration under Biplab Deb have allegedly planwise launched the rigging. Opposition has urged people to cast their valuable votes and to fight back the ruling party’s rigging. Minister Ratanlal Nath has taken active role in launching the organized violence with Biplab Deb and Pratima Bhowmik.

Voting began on Thursday across 91 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over 20 states and Union Territories as the first phase of the mega seven-phase electoral exercise kicked off.

Voting for electing Assemblies in Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha (first phase) also started along with polling for Lok Sabha constituencies. In these states, voters will cast two votes each.

In 10 states and two Union Territories -- Andhra Pradesh (25), Telangana (17), Arunachal Pradesh (2), Meghalaya (2), Uttarakhand (5), Mizoram (1), Nagaland (1), Sikkim (1), Lakshadweep (1), and Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1), voting is happening in all parliamentary constituencies.

Polling also started in eight out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, including Saharanpur, Kairana, Ghaziabad, Baghpat and Gautam Buddha Nagar, four - Aurangabad, Gaya, Nawada and Jamui - out of 40 seats in Bihar and two - Cooch Behar and Alipurduar - out of 42 seats in West Bengal.

Of Maharashtra's 48 constituencies, voting in the first phase is happening in seven constituencies of Vidharbha, with the focus on Nagpur -- the headquarters of the RSS -- and Chandrapur, the hometown of its chief Mohan Bhagwat.

In Telangana, key constituencies where voting started include Nizamabad, Nalgonda, Khammam and Hyderabad.

Voting also began in five constituencies in Assam, four in Odisha, two in Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu and Baramulla) and one each of Chhattisgarh (Bastar), Manipur (Outer Manipur), and Tripura (Tripura West).

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