The ruling Trinamool Congress has swept the high-voltage rural body elections in West Bengal held on July 8.
Mamata Banerjee’s party TMC has won 31,526 out of the 63,229 gram panchayat seats till now even as the counting of votes is underway across districts.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee thanked the people of West Bengal for the TMC’s huge win in the panchayat elections.
A fact-finding team of BJP headed by former law minister Ravi Sankar Prasad will arrive in Kolkata today and the delegation will visit violence-hit areas. The election was marred by violence and over 33 people were killed in political clashes across the state since the date of the panchayat polls was announced early last month.
Polling was held on July 8 in over 61,000 booths for the three-tier panchayat elections, with a voter turnout of 80.71 per cent.