
School van overturns on Maduravoyal flyover; two students escape unhurt
The Hindu
A school van overturned on Maduravoyal flyover, but two students inside escaped unharmed; police are investigating the incident.
A van carrying two school students overturned while descending from the Maduravoyal flyover on Monday. The students travelling in the vehicle escaped without injuries.
Police said that while coming down from the Maduravoyal flyover, the vehicle lost balance and overturned.
Traffic police rushed to the spot and cleared the overturned van using a crane to restore traffic flow. No other vehicles were involved in the accident.
Police have taken the van driver, Harish, for questioning, and are inquiring into the cause of the accident.

West Bengal is gearing up for assembly elections. Mamata Banerjee will face her toughest challenge, given the anti-incumbency factor of three terms. The BJP, in 2021, had cemented its position as the primary opposition, winning 77 seats to the Trinamool’s 215 seats. This time, unusually, but no longer surprisingly, the Election Commission has become a key character in the political narrative. The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ended up deleting more than 60 lakh voters. And in many constituencies, the number of voter deletions is greater than the margins of victory in previous elections. Another issue is the mass transfers in the state bureaucracy, which are unprecedented, and were challenged in court by the TMC. Mamata has used these developments to frame the polls as a fight between a besieged Bengal and Bengali ‘asmita’ on one side, and a BJP-led Centre on the other. The BJP has been playing the anti-migrant card to polarise voters, and has also sought to target the TMC on corruption and misgovernance. Whose narrative will gain the upper-hand? What is happening with the lakhs of voter deletions? How will the SIR impact the outcome?

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