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Assembly Elections 2021 LIVE Updates: Union minister of state for animal husbandry, Sanjeev Balyan, has tested positive for coronavirus while campaigning in West Bengal. The lawmaker from Uttar Pradesh had hit the headlines during 2013’s Muzaffarnagar riots. Meanwhile, all the parties have locked horns before the phase five of West Bengal assembly elections, with the Cooch Behar firing becoming the major topic of debate. While Mamata Banerjee has been blaming the central forces for the incident, Union home minister Amit Shah and other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slammed the TMC for ‘appeasement politics’.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address several public programs in poll-bound West Bengal on Monday. At noon, the prime minister will address an election rally at Talit Sai Centre in Purba Bardhaman district. After that, he will also hold rallies in Kalyani University Grounds in Nadia district at 1.40 pm and the Barasat area of the North 24 Parganas district at 3.10 pm.
Besides Prime Minister Modi, Shah will hold a roadshow in Kalimpong district at 11:30 am. Later, he will address a public meeting in the Dhupguri area of the Jalpaiguri district and in the Hemtabad Vidhan Sabha constituency. He is also scheduled to conduct a roadshow in Siliguri.
UPDATE | PIL filed before Calcutta High Court on Sitalkuchi firing incident. PIL filed by lawyer Aminuddin Khan. PIL seeks judicial investigation into the firing incident and seeks compensation for victims' families. The CJ's Division Bench likely to hear the petition tomorrow.
When we visited Jagdalpur, Rakeshwar’s mother had asked me to bring back her son safely. Today, I am happy that we succeeded in bringing him back. The role of journalists and all other officials was very vital in this operation. I thank all of them: Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel pic.twitter.com/Ywhku4IrEK
— ANI (@ANI) April 12, 2021
That brave police officer, who had come to Bengal on duty two days ago, was beaten to death. When his mother saw his body, she also succumbed. Didi, is that officer's mother not a mother for you? No mother in Bengal knew how harsh & ruthless you are: PM Modi
Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah holds a roadshow in Kalimpong, ahead of the fifth phase of the West Bengal Polls
That brave police officer, who had come to Bengal on duty two days ago, was beaten to death. When his mother saw his body, she also succumbed. Didi, is that officer's mother not a mother for you? No mother in Bengal knew how harsh & ruthless you are: PM Modi#WestBengalPolls pic.twitter.com/vNwqEbqNBz
— ANI (@ANI) April 12, 2021
Didi has only created a mess in the name of governance, says PM Modi
Didi ruled in Bengal for 10 years in the name of 'Ma Mati Manush' but she keeps saying 'Modi, Modi, Modi' in rallies these days. Didi has only created a mess in the name of governance: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bardhaman
Didi's bitterness & anger are increasing daily. You have eliminated TMC in just 4 phases of polls. You have hit so many 4s, 6s that BJP has already scored a century. Those who were thinking of playing khela with you had to face khela themselves. Won't Didi be angry then: PM Modi
Didi's people abuse Bengal's SC community & call them beggars. Baba Sahab's soul would be hurt by hearing such bitter words. Didi calls herself 'Royal Bengal Tiger'. Such comments on SCs cannot be given by any TMC leader without Didi's will: PM Modi in Bardhaman
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Bardhaman where will address a public rally shortly#WestBengalPolls pic.twitter.com/5Gjuoh75Tn
— ANI (@ANI) April 12, 2021
UPDATE | BJP delegation comprising BJP Gen. Secretary Dushyant Gautam, Smt Sunita Duggal, Sh Hans Raj Hans (MP) & Sh Lal Singh Arya will meet Chairman, SC Commission today 12 April, 11 AM at Lok Nayak Bhawan in New Delhi.
“The violence perpetrated in Bengal proves that the government is hand-in-glove with criminals and criminalisation of the TMC has become the order of the day. Violent incidents are happening only in Bengal. Who is the chief minister of Bengal for the last 10 years? Who is its home minister and who is in charge of the state’s law and order? Who will answer this?” Nadda said hitting out at Banerjee, who is also the president of the ruling TMC.
Nadda Confident of BJP's Success in All Poll-bound States, Says TMC Has Conceded Defeat in Bengal
In an exclusive interview with News18, Nadda said BJP fights every election with equal importance — be it Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu or Puducherry. “In every election, we put our point firmly in front of the public.”
The Trinamool Congress on Sunday accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of engaging in divisive politics over the death of five people in Cooch Behar district during the fourth phase of polling. Senior party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy told reporters here that Shah was knowingly ”suppressing facts” and giving a communal twist to the incident for electoral gains. READ FULL STORY HERE.
"What is Didi's problem if Matuas get citizenship? Her problem is that illegal immigrants will be displeased. Such people don't have the right to rule the state any longer. Illegal immigrants take benefits of welfare schemes like free ration but indulge in riots," Amit Shah says.
READ | 'Ready to Resign Only if...': Amit Shah's Retort to Mamata on Cooch Behar Killings
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that he is ready to resign from his post only if the people of West Bengal ask him to do so.
TMC lodges complaint with Election Commission against West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh, seeking legal action against him & for banning him from campaigning for the rest four phases of elections
Neither booth capturing nor any attack happened in Sitalkuchi. But Amit Shah's police opened fire to scare the minority community. They want to polarise Bengal to win the election but they won't succeed. People of Bengal are intelligent: West Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim (11.04) pic.twitter.com/iX4d9tkyQo
— ANI (@ANI) April 11, 2021
RECAP | Dilip Ghosh is not a sensible person which means he is a 'non-sense' says State Minister Firhad Hakim on Ghosh's reported remark on the death of four persons in firing by security personnel in Sitalkuchi, Cooch Behar
UPDATE | TMC files complaint to EC over Dilip Ghosh’s remark. Ghosh, at a rally in Baranagar (North 24 Parganas) today said, “People should behave or face more Sitalkuchi-like killings”
RECAP | West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh on Sunday courted fresh controversy by saying that more Cooch Behar-like killings may happen in the next phase of assembly elections if “naughty boys like the ones who died in Sitalkuchi” try to take the law into their hands. Strongly reacting to the BJP leader’s statement, TMC demanded his arrest while the CPI(M) said the comment “unmasks the saffron party’s fascist face”.
READ | Mamata Says Cooch Behar Tragedy a Conspiracy by BJP to Scare Voters, Calls it 'Murder of Democracy'
“Come out in larger numbers to cast your vote, exercise your democratic rights to defeat the trigger-happy BJP. The Cooch Behar incident was a result of a conspiracy hatched by the saffron camp,” the chief minister said during her address in Nagrakota.
Mamata Says Cooch Behar Tragedy a Conspiracy by BJP to Scare Voters
Mamata Says Cooch Behar Tragedy a Conspiracy by BJP to Scare Voters | Urging people not to vote for “trigger-happy BJP”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday claimed that the tragedy in Cooch Behar was the “result of a conspiracy” hatched by the saffron party to intimidate voters.
Cooch Behar Tragedy
Amid polling for the fourth phase of elections on Saturday, four persons died in Sitalkuchi area of Cooch Behar when CISF personnel opened fire allegedly after coming under attack from locals, who “attempted to snatch their rifles”, the police said.
Assembly Elections Live Update | Vehicle of Anup Saha, BJP candidate from Dubrajpur in Birbhum was vandalised allegedly by TMC supporters at a village in Khayrasole area yesterday.
