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West Bengal Panchayat Polls: TMC leaders to apologise to voters of uncontested seats

The ruling TMC had won 34.2% of the total 58,692 seats uncontested in recently-concluded panchayat polls in West Bengal

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Leaders of Trinamool Congress will apologise to the residents of North 24 Parganas district who could not cast their votes in the last three-tier Panchayat election in West Bengal.

The ruling TMC had won 34.2% of the total 58,692 seats uncontested. A hearing regarding this unprecedented number of uncontested wins is due at the Supreme Court on July 3.

At a district core committee meeting recently, Jyoti Priya Mallick, state food and supplies minister and party district president for North 24 Parganas, instructed party leaders to apologise to people of their respective areas. “There was an instruction from the party supremo Mamata Banerjee during a meeting on June 21. She had told us to listen to complaints of people and if need be accept our mistakes and apologise to them,” he said, adding that he had not meant specifically about Panchayat polls when he talked about people’s inability to exercise their franchise.

In North 24 Parganas, nine out of the 57 zilla parishad seats, 164 out of 589 panchayat samiti seats and 987 out of 3,560 gram panchayat seats had been won uncontested.

BJP national secretary and former state president of the party Rahul Sinha said that the TMC was doing this out of apprehension. “They know that they are losing popularity because people were not falling for the imaginary development that these people talked about. That is why they are doing these out of fear for the result of 2019 Lok Sabha polls,” he said.

CPI(M) MLA Sujan Chakraborty said that the top leaders were doing it as they were losing control over the leaders at the grassroot level. “If they were really sorry, they should have tendered a public apology. They are doing these in a desperate attempt to retain control over their lowest level leaders,” he said.

TMC has bagged 27 out of the 33 Assembly constituencies of North 24 Parganas in 2016 Assembly election. North 24 Parganas is one of the most populous districts in the state.

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