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Supreme Court vacation bench to shortly hear a plea claiming that #PostPollViolence in West Bengal has led to an exodus of people and internal displacement in the State. Seeks immediate relief for the "internally displaced"
#SupremeCourt
@MamataOfficial
@BJP4Bengal
The plea seeks directions to Centre to discharge its duty vested under Article 355 of the Constitution of India to protect the state from internal disturbance.

Further, to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the incidents of political violence
(Read more about the plea here)

barandbench.com/news/litigatio…
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1. A must read thread to understand #WestBengalViolence

Statistical projections were done on two sets of given data.
I: Average voter turnout as per ECI was 75%
II: Religious demography of #WestBengal as extrapolated from 2011 Census data i.e WB has 67% Hindus, 31% Muslims &
2. 2%—other faiths.

Thru' statistical projections frm given data & certain assumptions regarding factors whr exact data were not available, % of votes casted appeared to be distributed as follows.

Hindus 45%,Muslims 29%
&Others 1%—Total 75% (approx voter turnout—ECI) #Bengal
3. Out of all Hindu voters of #WestBengal,
—41.6% voted to BJP
—10.9% to TMC
—14.6% to LEFTs, Congress, ISF, Independent, NOTA etc. combined

—32.8% stayed away from voting altogether.
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