Updated: April 17, 2021 7:14:37 am
WB Assembly Election Polls Live, West Bengal Election 2021 Phase 5 Voting Percentage Live Updates: Over one crore voters will choose the political fate of 342 candidates in the fifth phase of polls.
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Meanwhile, a controversy erupted yesterday soon after the BJP released a purported audio clip in which Wes Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is heard telling the Trinamool Congress nominee of Sitalkuchi to hold rallies with bodies of the 4 persons killed in CISF firing through polling on April 10. Claiming that such a conversation under no circumstances took spot, the TMC described the audio clip as “bogus” and wondered irrespective of whether the Centre is tapping a chief ministers phone. On the other hand, amid a surge in COVID-19 instances, the EC has curtailed period of campaigning. The Election Commission on Friday invoked is constitutional powers to place in spot restrictions on campaigning by political parties, such as curtailing its time, for the West Bengal assembly elections. In an order, the poll panel curtailed the time for campaign up to 7 pm. Earlier it was up to 10 pm. “No rallies, public meetings, street plays, nukkad sabhas, shall be allowed on any day during the days of campaign between 7 pm and 10 am with effect from 7 pm of April 16,” the order mentioned. It also extended the silence period from 48 hours to 72 hours in each and every of the remaining 3 of the eight phases of the West Bengal polls to be held on April 22, 26 and 29. The fifth phase is on Saturday.