Lok Sabha Election 2024: Election Commission Orders Repolling at Barasat and Mathurapur in West Bengal Today

The Election Commission has ordered repolling at one polling station each in the Barasat and Mathurapur Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal on Monday, a day before the counting of votes. According to the poll body's order, repolling will take place at 61 Kadambagachi Saradar Pada FP School, Room No. 2 of 120-Deganga Assembly Constituency in 17 Barasat Parliamentary Constituency, and at 26 Aaddir Mahal Srichaitanya Bidyapith FP School of 131-Kakdwip Assembly Constituency in 20-Mathurapur (SC) Parliamentary Constituency.

"I am directed to state that on the basis of reports received from the concerned RO/the concerned DEO/the Observers of 17-Barasat PC and 20-Mathurapur (SC) PC. regarding poll taken for General Election to Lok Sabha for West Bengal State, 2024, held on 1 June, 2024 and after taking all material circumstances into account, the Commission, hereby declares under sub-section (2) of Section 58 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, that the poll taken on 1 June, 2024 for aforesaid election at the following polling stations (as mentioned in Column 3 of the table below) to be void and appoints 3 June, 2024 as the date and fixes the hours as mentioned in Column (4) of the table below, for taking a fresh poll at the said polling stations in accordance with Commission's instructions contained in paragraphs 13.62 of Chapter XIII of Hand Book for Returning Officer, 2023," the Election Commission said in a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal.

Clashes erupted between supporters of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Indian Secular Front (ISF), and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in various areas of West Bengal during the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha polls on June 1. An alleged clash between TMC and BJP workers occurred at Bayarbari in Basirhat amid the final phase of polling on Saturday. Additionally, a violent confrontation broke out between TMC and BJP workers at Meraganj in South 24 Parganas district, resulting in several injuries.