Over one crore voters in West Bengal will resolve the political destiny of 306 candidates on Thursday, when 43 meeting constituencies go to polls in the sixth section, amid a raging second wave of COVID-19. Security measures have been heightened in view of the violence in the earlier phases, notably the loss of life of 5 folks in Cooch Behar in the fourth section of polling on April 10, an Election Commission official stated.
The ballot panel has determined to deploy at the least 1,071 corporations of central forces in the sixth section to guarantee free and honest voting, he stated. It may also put in place measures to guarantee strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols in the course of the voting course of, the official stated.
West Bengal on Tuesday registered its highest-single- day spike of 9,819 new COVID-19 instances, which took the tally to 6,78,172, and at the least 46 extra folks succumbed to the an infection, pushing the toll to 10,652. Both the TMC and the BJP have pitched arduous to acquire the arrogance of Matuas, who make for a big chunk of the state’s Scheduled Caste inhabitants, in most of the 17 meeting segments going to polls in this section in North 24 Parganas district and a few of the 9 seats in Nadia.
Apart from these constituencies, elections will be held in 9 seats in Uttar Dinajpur district and eight in Purba Bardhaman. Prominent names in the sixth section of the meeting polls embrace BJP’s nationwide vice chairman Mukul Roy, TMC ministers Jyotipriyo Mallick and (*43*) Bhattacharya and CPI(M) chief Tanmay Bhattacharya.
The political destiny of movie director Raj Chakraborty and actor Koushani Mukherjee, who’re the TMC’s candidates from the Barrackpore and the Krishnanagar North constituencies respectively, may also be determined in this section. Voting will be held at 14,480 polling stations in the 43 meeting segments of the 4 districts.
This section will witness stiff competitors between the ruling Trinamool Congress and its foremost rival BJP. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP chief J P Nadda and Bollywood star Mithun Chakraborty led the marketing campaign of the saffron get together, which has fortified into TMC’s foremost challenger in this election.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee spearheaded the TMC marketing campaign alongside along with her nephew and get together’s youth wing chief Abhishek Banerjee. The Election Commission has curtailed day by day marketing campaign hours and prolonged the “silence period” from 48 hours to 72 hours in every of the remaining three phases of the meeting polls in view of the Cooch Behar violence and the rising COVID-19 instances in the state.
Elections have been held in 180 constituencies thus far, and the remaining 114 seats are set to go to polls between April 22 and 29. Votes will be counted on May 2.
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