{"id":5335,"date":"2023-07-15T15:03:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2023-07-15T15:03:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T15:03:43","slug":"seven-killed-during-election-day-clashes-in-indias-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/seven-killed-during-election-day-clashes-in-indias-west-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven killed during election day clashes in India\u2019s West Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>At least seven people were killed and dozens more injured in India after clashes over local polls in West Bengal, a state notorious for political violence during election campaigns, AFP reported. India\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has in recent years worked hard to gain a toehold in West Bengal \u2013 ruled by a Communist party for much of its history \u2013 to expand its reach beyond its Hindi-speaking northern heartlands. Voters are currently casting their ballots in a fierce contest to elect municipal leaders, with more than 200,000 candidates across the state of 104 million people. \u201cSeven people have been killed and dozens wounded in poll-related violence in different villages across the state,\u201d Jawed Shamim, a senior officer in West Bengal\u2019s police force, said.<\/p>\n<p>Another police official, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media, said five of the dead were from the state\u2019s ruling Trinamool Congress party. The other two were affiliated with the BJP and West Bengal\u2019s Communist party of India (Marxist).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] At least seven people were killed and dozens more injured in India after clashes over local polls in West Bengal, a state notorious for political violence during election campaigns, AFP reported. India\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has in recent years worked hard to gain a toehold in West Bengal \u2013 ruled by a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-5335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-asia-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5337,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions\/5337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=5335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}