From correspondents in West Bengal, India, 10:00 AM IST
Counting of votes polled in the three-phased panchayat welections in West Bengal began Wednesday.
West Bengal state election commission assistant secretary R.N. Mondal told IANS that the counting will finish by evening.
About 51,000 winners will take charge of governance that cover over 38,000 villages and rural areas.
West Bengal's three-tier panchayat system comprises of Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti and Zilla Parishad.
The three-phased elections were held across 17 out of 18 West Bengal districts May 11, 14 and 18.
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Initial news suggest that the West Bengal people, like TN people, are repeating the same folly,of course because they do not know how it is that. While in TN the Dravidian parties, DMK and AIADMK, alternate as ruling power in that State, without there being much difference, with a narrow range and selfish motivation,the Bengalis seem to ignore that the communists have ruined their state's economy,so much so that industrialists are only obliging to go there because the Govt.there is begging them to do, without any assurances re: labour discipline after many decades of labour chaos.
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