Assembly Election 2021: Bengal 2nd Phase of Voting begins amid violence

New Delhi: West Bengal (West Bengal Assembly Election 2021) and Assam (Assam Bengal Assembly Election 2021) assembly elections are underway on Thursday. Polling began at 7 in the morning in 30 seats in Bengal and 39 in Assam and will continue till 6 in the evening. There are some seats in this phase where everyone's eyes are on.

Assembly Election 2021:

Talking about West Bengal, Nandigram assembly constituency is very much discussed here. Here CM Mamata Banerjee is in the fray against her former colleague Shuvendu Adhikari. Shuvendu was a cabinet minister in the Mamta government and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party before the elections were announced. Recently, the entire Adhikari family joined the BJP. The official has said that if he is not able to defeat Mamta by less than 50,000 votes, he will leave politics. At the same time, Left-Congress-ISF alliance has given ticket to CPI's Meenakshi Mukherjee from Nandigram seat. It is a challenge for him to get back the lost land of his party on this seat.

PM Modi urges to vote:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urges people to vote in large numbers in second phase of assembly polls in Assam and West Bengal to strengthen festival of democracy.

A woman polling agent of BJP was allegedly killed by TMC workers at booth number 173 in Keshpur today and a BJP candidate from Keshpur assembly seat was vandalized in the car of local BJP leader Tanmay Ghosh saying that due to TMC violence, fair and fair The election is not taking place peacefully.

Before casting his vote in Nandigram, Shuvendu Adhikari said, 'This time BJP and Vikas will win. A wave of change is going on all over Bengal. Mamta Banerjee's government did so much unemployment, votes are being held against it. There should be 80-85% voting and there should be no violence.