"Most Deaths From Trinamool": Mamata Banerjee's Party On Panchayat Polls
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The Trinamool Congress rejected allegations of election violence as a distortion of reality, claiming that opposition parties and certain media outlets were "marketing violence" to discredit the elections.
A day after 13 people were killed, dozens injured and reports of attacks on voting centres during panchayat elections in West Bengal, the state's ruling Trinamool Congress party on Sunday countered allegations of widespread violence, asserting that out of 61,000 polling booths, only 60 reported violent incidents.
Party leaders Kunal Ghosh, Dr Shashi Panja, and Bratya Basu condemned the violence in a press conference, stating that any death was regrettable and expressing particular sympathy for the Trinamool workers among the casualties.
They rejected allegations of election violence as a distortion of reality, claiming that opposition parties and certain media outlets were "marketing violence" to discredit the elections.
