All the opposition leaders have expressed solidarity with Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee after the Election Commission ordered to cut short campaigning in the state by a day in the wake of clashes between TMC and BJP workers.
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With the seven-phase Lok Sabha election coming to an end, the Election Commission ordered Twitter India to remove all tweets related to exit polls. According to the Representation of the People Act, it is illegal to publish exit-poll results while an election is still going on.
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A day after BJP and Trinamool Congress workers fought pitched battles during Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah’s road show in Kolkata, the Election Commission has decided to cut short the electioneering for nine Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal, by a day.
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A day after BJP and Trinamool Congress workers engaged in violent clashes during Amit Shah’s road show in Kolkata, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's party has claimed to have “irrefutable evidence” that BJP is responsible for the violence in rally.
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Many TMC leaders, including party supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, changed their profile photos on Facebook and Twitter to Vidyasagar’s to express their protest and anguish over the vandalization of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's statue.
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A day after BJP and Trinamool Congress workers fought pitched battles during BJP president Amit Shah’s road show in Kolkata, the Election Commission has decided to hold a review meeting, although the poll panel didn’t reveal anything specifically on the violence.
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In West Bengal, amid the last phase of Lok Sabha election 2019, campaigning took a violent turn during BJP president Amit Shah’s roadshow in Kolkata as bottles, bricks and stones were thrown freely and a bust of Bengal icon Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was destroyed.
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The TRS said a “Federal Front” of regional parties suggested by its leader and Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is open to take support from the Congress to form a government at the Centre – as long as they don’t ask for leadership position in the coalition.
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Telangana chief minister and TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao called DMK chief MK Stalin to his residence, to discuss his proposal for a “Federal Front”. However, sources said Stalin was firm that the DMK would be with the UPA and urged Rao to extend TRS’s support to the Congress.
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BSP chief Mayawati assailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks on Alwar gang rape. She alleged that women workers of the BJP were scared of their husbands meeting Narendra Modi fearing they might also “abandon their wives like the prime minister”.
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