Polling officers carrying (*44*) Voting Machines (EVMs) and different supplies transfer in the direction of polling centres from a distribution centre, on the eve of fourth section of West Bengal Assembly Polls, in Kolkata.
Polling on 44 seats in the fourth section of West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 shall be held on Saturday (April 10). Bengal meeting polls are being held in 8 phases whereas the counting of votes will happen on May 2. Polling in the primary three phases in the state have already taken place on March 27 (30 seats), April 1 (30 seats), and April 6 (31 seats). Campaigning for the high-decibel fourth section ended at 5pm on Thursday.
Bengal Assembly Election 2021 4th section polling: All you’ll want to know
- A complete 1,15,81,022 voters together with 58,82,514 males, 56,98,218 girls and 290 members of the third gender, will resolve the destiny of 373 candidates in Saturday’s polling in constituencies unfold over Howrah (Part II), South 24 Parganas (Part III), Hooghly (Part II) in south Bengal and in north Bengal’s Alipurduar and Coochbehar.
- The polling shall be held between 7 am to six.30 pm in 15,940 polling stations.
- At stake are 9 meeting constituencies in Howrah, 11 in South 24 Parganas, 5 in Alipurduar, 9 in Coochbehar and 10 in Hooghly.
- Among these whose destiny shall be determined on the hustings are former Bengal Ranji captain Manoj Tiwary, TMC’s candidate from Shibpur, state schooling minister and sitting MLA from Behala Paschim Partha Chatterjee and central minister Babul Supriyo of the BJP who has locked horns with state sports activities minister Arup Biswas for the Tollygunge seat.
- Ratna Chatterjee, spouse of former metropolis mayor and hearth minister Sovan Chatterjee, who left Mamata Banerjee’s TMC to hitch the BJP for a brief interval, is dealing with BJP’s actress-turned politician Payel Sarkar in Behala Purbo seat.
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- Former state forest minister, Rajib Banerjee, who moved to the BJP lately is contesting from Domjur whereas BJP MP and actress Locket Chatterjee is contesting the polls from Chinsurah in Hooghly district.
- The Sanyukta Morcha comprising Left entrance, Congress and ISF has fielded principally younger faces for the fourth section of polling.
- CPI(M) chief Sujan Chakraborty is likely one of the few seniors fielded by the Left for this section of the elections.
- BJP’s begin campaigners included Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Amit Shah, social gathering president JP Nadda, Smriti Irani, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath apart from, Bollywood star of yesteryears Mithun Chakraborty who criss-crossed the state attempting to construct up assist for the saffron social gathering.
- The BJP management focused the TMC authorities, its supremo and chief minister Mamata Banerjee, her nephew Abhishek Banerjee accusing them of corruption and “appeasement politics” and claimed that their “khela shesh hobe” (sport shall be over).
- Modi and Shah promised voters early implementation of Ayushman Bharat scheme, PM Kisan Samman Nidhi in addition to implementation of the seventh pay fee scales for state authorities staff if voted to energy in West Bengal.
- Banerjee, her nephew and social gathering MP Abhishek have been amongst star campaigners for the TMC who stepped up their assault on the BJP-led central authorities over current hike in costs of gasoline, petrol, diesel, apart from plans to disinvest in numerous central government-run PSUs.
- Banerjee additionally accused central police forces of harassing and intimidating voters in Bengal and urged voters to “gherao” them in case securitymen prevented them from voting.
- The fiery TMC chief throughout a public rally at Tarakeswar in Hooghly district on April 3 additionally appealed to the minority group to not divide their votes. This led to the Election Commission of India issuing a showcause discover to Banerjee for demanding votes on communal floor.
- Taking notice of the “sensitive” state of affairs in the 44 meeting constituencies in Bengal, the EC has determined to deploy at the very least 789 corporations of the CAPF. Cooch Behar can have the best deployment with 187 corporations being deployed.
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