Campaigning for the second section of West Bengal meeting ballot ended on Tuesday night, setting the stage for the voting in 30 constituencies unfold throughout 4 districts on April 1. The destiny of 171 candidates shall be determined in the second section by 75,94,549 voters who will train their franchise in 10,620 polling cubicles unfold throughout the 30 constituencies, the Election Commission sources mentioned.
Sensitive Booths
All the cubicles the place polling shall be held in the second section have been declared as “sensitive” by the EC, sources in it mentioned. It will deploy whole 651 corporations of Central Armed Police for this section of election which shall be held in Bankura (Part II), Purba Medinipur (Part II), Paschim Medinipur (Part II) and South 24 Parganas (Part I), they mentioned.
A complete 199 corporations of CAPF shall be deployed in Purba Medinipur, 210 corporations in Paschim Medinipur, 170 in South 24 Parganas and 72 in Bankura, the sources mentioned. The closing day of the campaigning noticed hectic canvassing for the Nandigram seat in Purba Medinipur district the place Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is dealing with BJP chief and her former follower Suvednu Adhikari.
High-octane Canvassing
Union Home Minister Amit Shah held roadshows with Bengal’s megastar Mithun Chakraborty in help of Adhikari in Nandigram throughout the day, whereas Banerjee, who’s confined to a wheel chair following her damage which she had sustained whereas campaigning in the constituency, criss-crossed it addressing rallies at a number of venues. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Shah and BJP nationwide president J P Nadda had led BJP’s marketing campaign from the entrance addressing rallies at Kanthi and Nandigram and urging the citizens to vote for the saffron celebration to usher in ‘ashol poriborton’ (precise change) to construct ‘Sonar Bangla’ (affluent Bengal).
Modi in his rallies had attacked the TMC authorities and Banerjee, accusing her of “appeasement politics” and asserting that “khela shesh hobe” (recreation shall be over). Other star campaigners of the BJP confused on varied scams of the ruling Trinamool Congress – from the Saradha and Narada tape rip-off to the latest allegations over the siphoning of funds for Amphan reduction and the COVID-19 pandemic.
They highlighted the achievements of the BJP-led authorities on the Centre in their rallies and blamed the TMC authorities for not permitting schemes just like the Ayushman Bharat, PM Kisan Samman Nidhi to be applied in the state, the place the BJP leaders claimed corruption and anarchy are prevalent. Banerjee, who has chosen to contest from Nandigram instad of from her house seat Bhowanipore in the town, stayed put there and campaigned from her wheelchair.
The feisty politician held two back-to-back rallies in Paschim Medinipur regardless of the early summer season warmth urging folks to vote for TMC in order that the event work taken up there by the federal government continued. Banerjee, who was accmpanied by TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee attacked on the Adhikary household, calling them “gaddars” (traitors) and “Mir Jafars” and requested folks to not vote for them.
“Bangla wants her own daughter (Mamata). So vote for her,” Abhishek Banerjee urged in his conferences.
