Kolkata: With bypolls to four assembly constituencies in West Bengal being held on Saturday, amid tight security and maintenance of Covid protocols, all eyes will be on Dinhata as TMC heavyweight Udayan Guha who is looking to reclaim the seat BJP He was snatched from him by a mustache in the April election.
Guha, a two-time MLA, had won the seat for Forward Block in 2011 and TMC in 2016. He is up against BJP’s Ashok Mandal, who defeated him in 2006 as a TMC candidate.
A by-election for Dinhata was necessary after Nisitho’s resignation. authentic, now Union Minister of State for Home, as he opted to retain his Lok Sabha membership.
Pramanik defeated Guha in the assembly elections by a narrow margin of 57 votes.
The other three seats, where bypolls will be held on October 30, are Shantipur in Nadia district, Kharda in North 24 Parganas and Gosaba in South 24 Parganas.
In Shantipur too, BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar resigned from the assembly, thus calling for a by-election.
The saffron party has now fielded Brajkishore Goswami from this seat.
Goswami has crossed swords with TMC candidate Niranjan Biswas.
The Dinhata and Shantipur bypolls are a battle for prestige for the saffron party, which is currently battling with an exodus of MLAs and senior leaders.
However, the other two seats fell vacant after the death of the winning candidates.
State minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, who resigned from Bhabnipur to facilitate Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s assembly election, is contesting from Kharda, where TMC’s Kajal Sinha died due to Covid-19, after elections to the seat. A few days after.
Chattopadhyay has a face-off with BJP candidate Joy Saha in Khardah.
TMC’s Gosaba seat winner Jayant Naskar also succumbed to the viral infection.
The ruling party in Bengal has fielded Subrata Mandal From this seat, BJP’s Palash will take on Raha.
The Election Commission has ordered strict adherence to the guidelines of Kovid-19 during the by-elections in four seats, where elaborate security arrangements have also been made for peaceful voting.
It has deployed 27 companies of central armed forces in Dinhata, 22 in Shantipur, 20 in Khardah and 23 in Gosaba, an official said.
Poll panels had earlier rejected large rallies as part of political campaigns, given the COVID-19 situation, and parties focused on house-to-house visits and street-corner meetings.
Apart from TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, veteran MPs Saugata Roy And Transport Minister Firhad Hakim campaigned for his party’s candidates.
He highlighted the achievements of the TMC government over the past decade, criticizing the saffron party’s alleged communal agenda and the steady rise in fuel prices.
Similarly, BJP leaders including party’s state president Sukant Majumdar, leader of opposition in the assembly Suvendu Adhikari And national vice president Dilip Ghosh accused the TMC of doing vote bank politics by choosing to maintain “silence” on the attack on Hindus in Bangladesh.
Guha, a two-time MLA, had won the seat for Forward Block in 2011 and TMC in 2016. He is up against BJP’s Ashok Mandal, who defeated him in 2006 as a TMC candidate.
A by-election for Dinhata was necessary after Nisitho’s resignation. authentic, now Union Minister of State for Home, as he opted to retain his Lok Sabha membership.
Pramanik defeated Guha in the assembly elections by a narrow margin of 57 votes.
The other three seats, where bypolls will be held on October 30, are Shantipur in Nadia district, Kharda in North 24 Parganas and Gosaba in South 24 Parganas.
In Shantipur too, BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar resigned from the assembly, thus calling for a by-election.
The saffron party has now fielded Brajkishore Goswami from this seat.
Goswami has crossed swords with TMC candidate Niranjan Biswas.
The Dinhata and Shantipur bypolls are a battle for prestige for the saffron party, which is currently battling with an exodus of MLAs and senior leaders.
However, the other two seats fell vacant after the death of the winning candidates.
State minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, who resigned from Bhabnipur to facilitate Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s assembly election, is contesting from Kharda, where TMC’s Kajal Sinha died due to Covid-19, after elections to the seat. A few days after.
Chattopadhyay has a face-off with BJP candidate Joy Saha in Khardah.
TMC’s Gosaba seat winner Jayant Naskar also succumbed to the viral infection.
The ruling party in Bengal has fielded Subrata Mandal From this seat, BJP’s Palash will take on Raha.
The Election Commission has ordered strict adherence to the guidelines of Kovid-19 during the by-elections in four seats, where elaborate security arrangements have also been made for peaceful voting.
It has deployed 27 companies of central armed forces in Dinhata, 22 in Shantipur, 20 in Khardah and 23 in Gosaba, an official said.
Poll panels had earlier rejected large rallies as part of political campaigns, given the COVID-19 situation, and parties focused on house-to-house visits and street-corner meetings.
Apart from TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, veteran MPs Saugata Roy And Transport Minister Firhad Hakim campaigned for his party’s candidates.
He highlighted the achievements of the TMC government over the past decade, criticizing the saffron party’s alleged communal agenda and the steady rise in fuel prices.
Similarly, BJP leaders including party’s state president Sukant Majumdar, leader of opposition in the assembly Suvendu Adhikari And national vice president Dilip Ghosh accused the TMC of doing vote bank politics by choosing to maintain “silence” on the attack on Hindus in Bangladesh.
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