Bomb hurled in North Kolkata: 16% voter turnout recorded till 9.30 am

 

BJP candidate from Jarasanko, Meena Devi Purohit, alleged that the bomb was aimed at her car.

A bomb blast outside Mahajati Sadan in North Kolkata on Thursday as West Bengal voted for the last time during the Council elections. Jarasanko's BJP nominee, Meena Devi Purohit, suspects the bomb was aimed at his car. No one was injured in the incident.

Meanwhile, a 16.04% voter turnout was voted until 9:30 p.m. Voting for the final round of parliamentary elections in West Bengal began at 7am amid a state-run anti-novel coronavirus. The 35 constituencies spread across Malda, Murshidabad, Birbhum, and northern Kolkata will decide on the political fate of the 285 candidates.

The final round of elections is held among the unprecedented Covid spike. The state filed 17,207 new cases on Wednesday, the highest number of days recorded so far, bringing the total to 7,93,552, according to a report released by the health department. The death toll rose to 11,159 and killed 77 others, the highest number during the day, they said.

More than 84 lakh voters will vote at 11,860 polling stations in this category. The focus will be on five seats north of Kolkata - Beleghata, Jorsanko, Shyampukur, Maniktala and Kashipur-Belgachia - where a neck-and-neck competition is expected between TMC and BJP.

In Shyampukur, Minister for Women and Child Development and Social Welfare Shashi Panja opposed Bipp's Sandipan Biswas and AIFB's Jiban Prakash Saha. Another TMC survivor, State Consumer Affairs Minister Sadhan Pandey, will clash with former Indian soccer player and former BJP member Kalalyan Chaubey and CPI (M) Rupa Bagchi in the Maniktala seat.