West Bengal Elections 2021: Voting is underway for 34 constituencies within the 7th section of the Assembly elections. A complete of 268 candidates, together with 37 girls are within the fray on this section of the West Bengal elections. The section will witness an intense battle in six constituencies in Dakshin Dinajpur, six in Malda, 9 in Murshidabad, 9 in Paschim Bardhaman, and 4 in Kolkata.
All eyes are on TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee’s turf Bhowanipore from the place she has been a sitting MLA since 2011. However, on this election, Mamata Banerjee determined to contest from the Nandigram gram after Abhishek Banerjee left Mamata’s facet. She fielded one in every of her strongest leaders to carry the turf of Bhowanipore,
Bhabanipur: Sovandeb Chattopadhyay (TMC) vs Rudranil Ghosh (BJP) vs Md Shadab Khan (Congress)
Banerjee has fielded Sovandeb Chattopadhyay in opposition to Rudranil Ghosh of the BJP and Shadab Khan of Congress.
Chattopadhyay was first elected as TMC MLA in 1998. He was the founder-president of the Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress (INTTUC) – the labour wing of the TMC.
He was the chief whip within the West Bengal Assembly from 2011 to 2016. On May 27, 2016 he took cost because the State Minister of Power and Non Conventional Energy in Mamata’s cupboard.
A layer by occupation, he was additionally the president of Kolkata Auto Rickshaw Operators’ Union.
In 1991 and 1996, he received the Baruipur seat as a Congress candidate. In 2001 and 2006, he received the Rashbehari seat in South Kolkata on TMC ticket. He was re-elected from the identical seat in 2016.
Presently, he’s the minister-in-cost of the division of energy and non-standard vitality sources.
Bhabanipur is positioned in South Kolkata and was as soon as a Congress bastion Banerjee was nonetheless with the grand outdated social gathering. Later it turned Banerjee’s citadel as a result of her Kalighat house is positioned on this constituency.
Ghosh is a Bengali actor, and in addition President of the West Bengal State Council of Technical and Vocational Education and Skill Development
Murshidabad: Shaoni Singha Roy (TMC) vs Gouri Shankar Ghosh (BJP) vs Niazuddin Sheikh (Congress)
Murshidabad is a district with a sizeable proportion of the Muslim neighborhood. Nine constituencies will go to polls within the Murshidabad district. Muslims comprise of 66.7% the inhabitants of the district as recorded in 2011 census.Roy, a two time MLA from the seat had earlier fought elections from the Congress. She had defeated Ashim Krishna Bhatta of TMC in 2016. AIMIM is preventing six meeting seats together with 3 in Murshidabad and can intention to make its presence felt.
On the opposite hand, Congress and its left ally Communist Party of India (Marxist), referred as CPIM, will financial institution on a lot of minority voters in Murshidabad and its neighbouring Malda as the 2 districts are often the strongholds of the alliance, particularly Congress.
During the marketing campaign, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee sought assist from the Muslim neighborhood and urged them to keep away from any cut up in votes.
The BJP, throughout its electioneering, blasted each the TMC and the National Congress for patronising Muslims, in its efforts to unite Hindu voters.
Among the 36 seats within the final meeting polls in 2016, TMC bought 14 seats and had secured 37 per cent votes whereas the left-Congress mixed received in 22 seats and had bought 44 % votes. BJP didn’t win a single one.
But the image was totally different within the Lok Sabha elections (nationwide polls) in 2019 when BJP bought 37 per cent votes, which was very near TMC’s 39 per cent. If the 2019 Lok Sabha election is one thing to go by, BJP is main in 16 meeting seats, TMC in 16 seats and Congress in the remainder of the 4 seats.
(with ANI inputs)
