Union minister of state and BJP candidate from Cooch Behar Nisith Pramanik. (File photo/PTI) The Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party lodged around 100 and 50 complaints, respectively, related to poll violence, voter intimidation, and assaults on poll agents in the initial hours of voting, said sources from both parties. Most complaints originated from Cooch … Read more
The Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency will vote in the first phase of polling on April 19 and the counting of votes will be held on June 4. (Reresentational image/PTI) There are around 2,537 voting booths in the Cooch Behar constituency this time and more than 300 of these have been identified as ‘sensitive’. The … Read more
Debashis Dhar, the former superintendent of police of Coochbehar, was suspended after the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections following the Sitalkuchi firing incident. Former IPS officer Debashis Dhar, who resigned on March 20 citing “personal reason” and “socials goals”, will be contesting on a BJP ticket from the Birbhum constituency, which votes in the fourth … Read more
