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in This election panchayatIn West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) won nearly 10 percent of the seats unopposed – a sharp drop from the 34 percent of seats it won unopposed five years earlier.
the Deadline for withdrawing nominations Ended June 20th.
According to State Election Commission figures, the party led by Mamata Banerjee secured nearly 7,000 (9.47%) out of 73,887 uncontested seats.
Of these, the TMC won 6,238 (9.7%) of the total 63,229 seats of the zila parishad, 759 (7.8%) of the 9,730-seat Samiti panchayats, and eight of the 928 (0.86%) seats of the zila parishad without opposition.
It was learned that the opposition parties went only five to six seats. Most of the seats won by the ruling party without a contest are located in the districts of Birbhum, Bankura, Rashidabad and South 24 Parganas – most of these districts, especially South 24 Parganas have We saw clashes and violence.
In the 2018 panchayat elections, the TMC won 16,814 (34.5%) of the 48,650 gm panchayat seats; 3,059 (33.2%) of the 9,217-seat Panchayat Samiti; and 203 (24.6%) of zila parishad’s 825 seats are uncontested.
In the 2018 polls, the TMC won the most uncontested seats from Birbhum District (90%). This time, the party took 30% of the seats unopposed from Beerbohm, which is still more than in any other district. However, the party won only one of the 52 uncontested “Zilla Paris” seats from the region.
In zila parishads and panchayat samitis this time, the TMC won only 0.86% and 8.22% of the uncontested seats, respectively.
A senior TMC leader said, “Zela Parisad nominations were submitted in the offices of the District Magistrate. This time, the party instructed to keep the peace in Dubai Municipality offices. This is why opposition parties put forward more nominations for ‘Zela Parisad’” .
Opposition parties claimed that they were able to field more nominations this time around since the TMC’s organizational control weakened.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee rejected this allegation and said, “This shows that democracy prevailed in the state. In Tripura, 90% of the panchayat seats were won by the BJP. Here, more than 2.70 lakh nominations were submitted. Don’t forget that we are an elected government.”
BJP leader Samik Bhattacharya said, “This is nothing but a data gimmick. They have prevented opposition candidates from filing nominations in Diamond Harbour.”
Accusing the TMC of using state machinery to prevent opposition parties from submitting their candidacies or to force them to withdraw their candidatures, Sujan Chakraborty, leader of the Communist Party of China (CCP), said, “But with the help of the people, we have been able to nominate nominations in most places. The TMC is afraid of defeat imminent.”
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