West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee throughout an election marketing campaign rally in help of celebration candidates for the Assembly Polls in Asansol district.
Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday cancelled his go to to poll-bound West Bengal on Friday for reviewing the prevailing Covid state of affairs, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee additionally introduced the cancellation of all her pre-scheduled poll meetings within the state.
“In the wake of an upsurge in Covid-19 cases across the country and the ECI order dated April 22, 2021, I am cancelling all my pre-scheduled meetings and we will reach out to the people virtually,” Banerjee tweeted.
Prior to the Chief Minister’s announcement, the Prime Minister Narendra had tweeted, “Tomorrow I will be chairing high-level meetings to review the prevailing Covid-19 situation. Due to that, I would not be going to West Bengal.”
Modi was supposed to deal with a political rally in Kolkata on Friday, which is able to now be held just about, sources mentioned.
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Amid the raging second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in West Bengal and throughout the nation, the Election Commission on Thursday revised the schedule for repolling in Samsherganj and Jangipur constituencies in Murshidabad and stuck May 16 because the polling date.
Voting in these two seats had been postponed after the candidates of the Sanjukta Morcha fell prey to Covid-19. The elections in each these seats had been scheduled to be held on April 26 throughout the seventh part of polling.
On April 15, the Congress candidate from Samsherganj, Rezaul Haque, died because of the Covid-19, compelling the poll panel to postpone the elections there.
Two days in a while April 16, RSP candidate from Jangipur, Pradip Nandi, succumbed to the virus, forcing repolling within the seat.
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