AGARTALA, April 12 (TIWN): Crime Queen Pratima Bhowmik has permanently sealed her name in criminal-gang followed by the Lok Sabha Election’s first phase. CPI-M and Congress both have demanded for re-polling as the voting became farce where people inside the booths had to vote in front of BJP supporters by pressing on lotus. The Crime Queen. The vote rigging at West Tripura was evident, proven and also viral across social media. Voters were not allowed to cast votes and hundreds of people from opposition were beaten when they attempted to cast votes. It was suspected that the murder accused, belong to smuggling and dowry practicing family, Pratima Bhowmik and Biplab Deb will try to rig the booths just like previous local body booths, but the hooligans will enter the booths and capture the booths were beyond idea which has helped to be possible under DGP AK Sukla and CEO Sriram Taranikanti.

The Congress and the CPI-M have alleged poll malpractices by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre and in Tripura during the voting for the Tripura West Lok Sabha seat on Thursday. But the BJP rejected the charges saying "opposition parties are making false allegations to cover up their defeats".

CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said the BJP government at the Centre and in Tripura kept the security forces out of poll duties to facilitate rigging by party workers.

Yechury said the BJP workers and BJP-sponsored criminals rigged more than 464 of the 1,679 polling stations across the constituency.

Yechury said the BJP workers and their hooligans drove Left parties' polling agents out from several hundred polling stations and prevented thousands of opposition supporters from casting votes.

He said a party delegation met the Election Commission (EC) in Delhi and submitted a memorandum detailing vote rigging by the BJP supporters and their hoodlums.

"We would submit more details of poll violence to the EC and demand repolling in those booths to give thousands of voters a chance to cast their votes," said Yechury.

The CPI-M leader arrived here on Thursday to campaign for the second phase of elections in the Tripura East Lok Sabha seat on April 18

Former CM and CPI-M Politburo member Manik Sarkar, after casting his vote said this election was "to save the country from the atrocities and utter misrule of the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre". "The BJP is afraid of facing free and fair elections in Tripura," he said.

He alleged the BJP members and their hoodlums, locally called "bike bahini" (two-wheeler group), since Tuesday visited houses of thousands of opposition supporters and CPI-M members and told them not to venture out to vote.

Also TIWN published enough evidences which are enough to prove Govt led massive rigging and booth capturing by withdrawing security personnel.  

In this condition, if Election Commission permits for re-polling then it will affect the vote banks of Pratima Bhowmik more.