Key Points
The rural West Bengal is all set for the three-tier Panchayat polls, to be held on Saturday..
The state has been witnessing a series of violent incidents and killings since June 8, the day the polls were announced, with over a dozen people killed till date...
In 2018, the TMC won 90 per cent of the panchayat seats and all 22 zilla parishads, although the elections were marred by violence and allegations of preventing opposition nominations...
Among the candidates competing for the Gram Panchayat seats, the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) has filed 61,591 nominations, the BJP has filed 38,475, CPIM has filed 35,411, and the Indian National Congress has filed 11,774...
The decision to enhance security measures came after a series of discussions and debates between the Election Commission, the ruling party, and the opposition parties, due to several incidents of political violence prior to the polls...
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