EC to hold review meeting before phase 7; West Bengal might be focus

The review meeting will be held via video conference and will be attended by poll officials and observers for constituencies going to polls on the 19th

LokSabha Elections 2019:The Election Commission will on Wednesday hold an audit meeting with eyewitnesses and state boss constituent officers for the last period of Lok Sabha surveys on May 19.

The audit meeting which will be held by means of video gathering, comes multi day after BJP and Trinamool Congress specialists took on pitched conflicts in the city of Kolkata amid a huge street appear by the saffron party president Amit Shah.

“Since nine out of 59 parliamentary voting public going for survey on May 19 are from West Bengal, it is regular that onlookers and survey authorities from the state will likewise take an interest,” an authority said.

He, in any case, would not say whether the attention will be on West Bengal.

While Trinamool Congress has looked for a gathering with the Commission on the issue, a Bharatiya Janata Party appointment asked the Election Commission on Tuesday to bar West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from crusading in the state and affirmed that “established hardware” has crumpled there.

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Shah ‘denied’ permission to rally in Jadavpur: BJP to protest, move EC

BJP has also alleged that the TMC is resorting to undemocratic means even as the EC remains a mute spectator

LokSabha Elections 2019:Blaming the West Bengal government for not permitting its leader Amit Shah’s rally in Jadavpur, the BJP said on Monday that the Election Commission has turned into a “quiet onlooker” to the Trinamool Congress’ supposed undemocratic intends to focus on the saffron party.

BJP media head and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni said his gathering will hold challenges and furthermore move the EC.

Shah’s rally was booked for Monday in Jadavpur, which goes to the surveys on May 19 in the last stage, however the authorization for it was denied at last by the state organization, he said.

Along these lines, the authorization for Shah’s chopper to arrive was likewise pulled back, Baluni said.

“Tragically the EC has turned into a quiet onlooker to this and furthermore utilization of brutality by the TMC in the state,” he said.

He affirmed the decision party in Bengal was utilizing undemocratic intends to focus on the BJP.

Nine seats will go to surveys in the last period of the general decision.

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Election Commission bars Sidhu for 72 hours for ‘violating’ poll conduct

The ban comes into force from 10 am on Tuesday

Elections: The Election Commission Monday rebuffed Congress pioneer Navjot Singh Sidhu and banished him from battling for 72 hours for supposed mutual comments amid a decision rally in Bihar.

The restriction comes into power from 10 am on Tuesday.

Tending to a decision rally in Katihar on April 16, the cricketer-turned-government official had stirred a debate when he encouraged Muslim voters to cast a ballot en alliance and thrashing Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

At the time Sidhu was campaigning in help of veteran Congress pioneer and previous association serve Tariq Anwar.

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TMC’s ‘united India rally’ will sound BJP’s death knell in LS polls: Mamata

Regional parties would be the deciding factor in the Lok Sabha polls, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

With an eye on Delhi, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is altogether prepared for Saturday’s “united opposition rally”, which party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said would sound the “death knell” for the BJP in the coming Lok Sabha surveys.

Pioneers of more than 20 resistance parties are relied upon to go to the rally at the notable Brigade Parade Ground here on Saturday to pledge to set up a unified battle against the “misrule” of the saffron party.

The TMC plans to utilize the rally as a stage to prop Banerjee as a pioneer who can “bring different gatherings” and test the decision Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the general race.

Banerjee, the cerebrum behind the uber restriction rally, on Thursday said the provincial gatherings would be the integral factor in the Lok Sabha surveys Read More.