It will likely be curtains for the bitter West Bengal marketing campaign on Monday, which noticed chief minister Mamata Banerjee rallying across the state in a wheelchair for the final 44 days whereas BJP introduced in all its huge weapons from Delhi led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for over 20 rallies.
Covid has dominated the discourse on the fag finish of the election marketing campaign, with Banerjee accusing the Centre of “sleeping at the wheel” because the second Covid-19 wave hit the nation and final week promised free vaccination for all Bengal residents if voted again to energy. The BJP needed to observe up the very subsequent day with an analogous promise. Attacks on the Centre over the Covid subject have come unabated from the chief minister. She accused the Centre on Sunday of “diverting oxygen supply of West Bengal to Uttar Pradesh” and mentioned the Centre exported vaccines when India was in dire want. National BJP president JP Nadda as an alternative blamed Banerjee for mishandling the Covid state of affairs in West Bengal and skipping the prime minister’s assessment conferences on Covid.
Three candidates have died resulting from Covid throughout these meeting elections whereas over half a dozen are contaminated. Banerjee has put the blame for the unfold of Covid in Bengal on over one lakh cadre of BJP which she claims has camped right here for over a month and almost two lakh safety forces who got here from exterior. West Bengal touched almost 88,000 lively instances on Sunday, with a projection of crossing one lakh lively instances by the point the final vote is forged right here on April 29. Elections have been postpone in two out of the 36 seats that had been to ballot right now, as two candidates succumbed to Covid.
The marketing campaign for the final two phases was additionally marked by a virtual-heavy marketing campaign by the BJP whereas Banerjee has opted for press conferences along with her candidates within the numerous districts to ship throughout a bigger message, because the Election Commission’s ban on roadshows and large bodily rallies. The final two phases of the West Bengal elections comprise 71 seats, with 34 seats polling right now, 35 seats on April 29 and relaxation two on May 16, however the marketing campaign for the April 29 part may even finish right now given the prolonged 72-hour silence interval mounted by the Election Commission. Muslim-dominated districts of Malda and Murshidabad, 11 city seats of Kolkata and the Birbhum district are polling within the final two phases, with 22 seats in Murshidabad, 12 in Malda and 11 in Kolkata, the place TMC made good floor within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
With Home Minister Amit Shah away from West Bengal for the final two days, Nadda has taken over the mantle of the marketing campaign within the final two phases and held three digital rallies within the state on Sunday. He will maintain three extra digital rallies right now for the final part earlier than ending the BJP’s marketing campaign with a press convention in Kolkata. BJP state president Dilip Ghosh, Suvendu Adhikari and Mithun Chakraborty have nonetheless continued with their bodily public conferences within the state, which BJP claims didn’t contain greater than 500 individuals however the Trinamool Congress has alleged that the Election Commission pointers have been violated by these BJP campaigners.
Banerjee held a press convention in Bolpur with all candidates of Birbhum district on Saturday, one in Murshidabad with the candidates of that district on Sunday and can maintain one other one on Monday in Kolkata.
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