By-polls to 4 Bengal assembly constituencies begin
Kolkata Oct 30 PTI Voting began at 7 AM on Saturday for by-polls to the four assembly constituencies of Dinhata in Cooch Behar Shantipur in Nadia Khardah in North 24 Parganas and Gosaba in South 24 Parganas districts an election commission of India ECI official saidIn Dinhata TMCs heavyweight north Bengal leader Udayan Guha is fighting to reclaim the seat which BJP had snatched from him by a whisker in polls held last AprilThe by-election at Dinhata were necessitated by the resignation of Nisith Pramanik now Union Minister of State for Home Affairs who favoured keeping his Lok Sabha membership over sitting in the opposition in West Bengals assemblyGuha a two-time MLA from Dinhata is up against BJPs Ashok Mandal who as a TMC candidate had defeated him a Forward Bloc candidate then in 2006The bypoll to Shantipur was necessitated by the resignation of BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar who too resigned from the assembly seat in favour of retaining his Lok Sabha membershipState minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay who resigned from Bhabanipur to facilitate Chief Minister Mamata Banerjees election to the Assembly is fighting from Khardah where TMCs Kajal Sinha died due to COVID-19 just days after polls to the seat were held Bypoll to the Gosaba seat in Sunderbans was also necessitated by the death of TMCs Jayanta Naskar who too was suffering from CovidThe EC has deployed 27 companies of central armed forces in Dinhata 22 in Santipur 20 in Khardah and 23 in Gosaba an official said PTI SCH JRC JRC JRC
Kolkata Oct 30 PTI Voting began at 7 AM on Saturday for by-polls to the four assembly constituencies of Dinhata in Cooch Behar Shantipur in Nadia Khardah in North 24 Parganas and Gosaba in South 24 Parganas districts an election commission of India ECI official saidIn Dinhata TMCs heavyweight north Bengal leader Udayan Guha is fighting to reclaim the seat which BJP had snatched from him by a whisker in polls held last AprilThe by-election at Dinhata were necessitated by the resignation of Nisith Pramanik now Union Minister of State for Home Affairs who favoured keeping his Lok Sabha membership over sitting in the opposition in West Bengals assemblyGuha a two-time MLA from Dinhata is up against BJPs Ashok Mandal who as a TMC candidate had defeated him a Forward Bloc candidate then in 2006The bypoll to Shantipur was necessitated by the resignation of BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar who too resigned from the assembly seat in favour of retaining his Lok Sabha membershipState minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay who resigned from Bhabanipur to facilitate Chief Minister Mamata Banerjees election to the Assembly is fighting from Khardah where TMCs Kajal Sinha died due to COVID-19 just days after polls to the seat were held Bypoll to the Gosaba seat in Sunderbans was also necessitated by the death of TMCs Jayanta Naskar who too was suffering from CovidThe EC has deployed 27 companies of central armed forces in Dinhata 22 in Santipur 20 in Khardah and 23 in Gosaba an official said PTI SCH JRC JRC JRC
