with dates Bhabnipur by-electionThis was necessitated after TMC MLA Sovandeb Chattopadhyay vacated the seat. Mamata Banerjee In West Bengal, a new round of electoral tussle has begun between the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state to contest elections from there to retain their chief ministerial post.
Banerjee lost to Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP from Nandigram during the assembly elections held earlier this year. The TMC supremo has to win this by-election to retain his chief minister’s post.
Polling for two “postponed” elections in two other West Bengal assembly seats, Samserganj and Jangirpur, will also take place on the same day.
Banerjee, who led her party to a massive electoral victory for a third consecutive term but lost to her former hero-rival officer in Nandigram, needed to win a seat in the state assembly by November 5 in line with constitutional provisions. To continue as Chief Minister.
The constitution allows a non-member of the state legislature or parliament to remain in ministerial position for only six months.
The BJP has geared up its star campaigners to rally for its candidate Priyanka Tibrewal, whom the party has fielded against the Bengal CM. Led by Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh, the list of star campaigners includes Adhikari, leader of opposition in the state assembly, Union ministers Smriti Irani and Hardeep Singh Puri.
Responding to the star campaigners of the saffron camp, TMC’s Kunal Ghosh took a dig at the BJP, questioning the absence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, party national president JP Nadda and even Kailash Vijayvargiya. did.
Further, he hit out at the BJP for Supriyo’s name in the list as he announced to “quit his politics”.
Full list of star campaigners of BJP:
1. Dilip Ghosh (Bengal BJP President and MP)
2. Suvendu Adhikari (LOP & MLA)
3. Amitabh Chakraborty
4. Rahul Sinha (Former National Secretary)
5. Swapan Dasgupta (MP, Rajya Sabha)
6. Anirban Ganguly
7. Debashree Choudhary (MP, former Union Minister)
8. Babul Supriyo (MP)
9. Subhash Sarkar (Union Minister)
10. John Barla (Union Minister)
11. Samik Bhattacharya (Chief Spokesperson)
12. Roopa Ganguly (MP)
13. Agnimitra Paul (MLA and BJP Bengal Mahila Morcha President)
14. Shantanu Thakur (Union Minister)
15. Locket Chatterjee (MP)
16. Shanwaz Hussain (National Spokesperson)
17. Smriti Irani (Union Minister)
18. Dinesh Trivedi (Former Union Minister)
19. Manoj Tiwari (MP and former state president)
20. Hardeep Singh Puri (Union Minister)
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