Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Friday 🥃accused the TMC of perpetrating violence during the panchayat polls in West Bengal and invited his counterpart Mamata Banerjee to "learn" from the nort🧸heastern state "how to ensure free, fair and peaceful elections".
Saha also expres🔜sed shock over the death of 12 people during the rural polls in West Bengal and alleged that reports of violence reflect that "democracy is being murdered there"𝄹.
"Shocking🍌 reports coming from West Bengal reflect democracy is being murdered there…! TMC goons in Panchayat polls under the regime of West Bengal Chief Minister @MamataOfficial Ji are restricting people to participate in the democratic festival & creating a tensed𒉰 environment through violence," Saha said on Twitter.
He also said, "I strongly condemn the violence perpetrated by the TMC hooligans & invite Mamata Ji to learn from #Tripura how to ensure free, fair and peaceful elections. The BJP won 95 per cent of the seats in t🌠hree-tier panchayat elections in Tripura unopposed in 2019.
The rural polls in Bengal drew tow🦩ards a bloody finish as 12 people died, bombs exploded and all parties levelled allegations of strong-arm tactics against their rivals on Saturday.
Eight from the ruli🌺ng TMC and one worker each of the BJP, CPI(M), Congress and the ISF died since midnight in the crucial three-tier panchayat polls in West Bengal, officials said.
The ruling TMC accused the opposition parties of orchestrating violence during the ru💎ral polls in Bengal while asserting that the party will emerge victorious in a majority of the sea♎ts when the votes will be counted on July 11.
Dismissing allegations of the state administration letting loose a reign 𓄧of terror, state minister Bratya Basu claimed that it is the Trinamool Congress wh🍌ich has been at the "receiving end of the violence".
