In 41 of 42 seats of West Bengal's Birbhum zilla parishad, Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidates were declared "elected unopposed", reported The Indian Express. This development occurred hours before West Bengal State Election Commission issued a notification on Monday, 9 April, extending the last date for filing nomination papers for the panchayat polls by a day.
According to the report, the ruling party also secured 14 of 19 panchayat samitis in Birbhum "unopposed". The panchayat elections are slated to be held on 1, 3 and 5 May. In Murshidabad's Kandi too the TMC won 29 of 30 samiti seats uncontested.
In Bharatpur II TMC won all 21 panhayat samit seats and in Barwan it won all 37.