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  • West Bengal polls: Two security personnel injured in bombing, firing in Purba Medinipur

    By ANI
    PURBA MEDINIPUR (West Bengal): Hours before the first phase of polling began in West Bengal Assembly elections, the Purba Medinipur district witnessed violence as bombing and firing took place in the Satsatmal village at the Argoal gram panchayat in Bhagabanpur Assembly constituency, injuring two security personnel.

    Patashpur Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Deepak Kumar Chakraborty and a Central Force soldier were seriously injured in the incident.

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    Speaking to ANI, Anup Chakraborty, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) district president, Purba Medinipur, alleged that the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) was spreading terror.

    “There is a polling booth at the Argoal area under the Bhagabanpur assembly in Patashpur police station. A terror factory resides in the booth. That booth cannot function without terror and through it, the TMC is damaging the nearby booths by spreading terror,” he said.

    “We want to make it clear that all those jihadis are running around in all areas and are trying to terrorise the people on behalf of Trinamool. This cannot happen, people have been awakened. The administration went there to control the situation which led to the injury of the OC,” he added.

    After primary treatment at Egra Super Specialty Hospital, the injured personnel were shifted to Kolkata for further treatment.

    Meanwhile, BJP candidate from Paschim Medinipur Samit Das also accused the TMC of creating a disturbance in the rural areas of the district.

    “Voting in Midnapore town is going on smoothly. But, at some places in rural areas, TMC workers are trying to create a disturbance,” Das told ANI.

    In the first phase of West Bengal elections, 30 seats covering all assembly constituencies from the districts of Purulia and Jhargram and a segment of Bankura, Purba Medinipur, and Paschim Medinipur are going for polls.

    The first phase of polling will decide the electoral fate of 191 candidates, including 21 women. The polling will conclude at 6:30 pm. 

  • Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed Denies Reports Of Guerrilla Insurgency In Tigray Region

    Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on December 7 denied that the rebellious northern force, against whom the armed forces launched an offensive, would start a guerrilla war from the mountains of Tigray.

    Asserting that the troops had declared an end to their offensive, PM Ahmed said that the Ethiopian military has gained full control after “heavily bombarding” the region of over 5,00,000 residents, gaining territory’s command from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) factions. However, according to sources of Al-Arabiya, the experts analysing the situation on the ground post the end of the military offensive suspect a drawn-out insurgency.

    “The criminal clique pushed a patently false narrative that its fighters and supporters are battle-hardened and well-armed, posing the risk of protracted insurgency in the rugged mountains of Tigray,” Abiy’s office said in an official statement. “It also claimed that it has managed to undertake a strategic retreat with all its capability and regional government apparatus intact. The reality is the criminal clique is thoroughly defeated and in disarray, with the insignificant capability to mount a protracted insurgency,” it added.

    United Nations, meanwhile, claimed that its aide was shot at near Eritrean Shimelba refugee camp despite federal troops deployment across all fronts in the regional capital Mekelle. However, the country’s prime minister denied factions could mount a guerrilla insurgency.