Kolkata: On Thursday, polling started for 43 seats in sixth section of meeting elections in West Bengal amid tight safety. In this section election will likely be carried out in 9 constituencies every in North Dinajpur and Nadia districts, 17 in North 24 Parganas and eight in East Burdwan.
10,409,948 voters will determine the destiny of 306 candidates together with ladies 27 candidates.
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Out of the 43 seats on this spherical, Congress has acquired 12 in its share, CPI(M) acquired 23, All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) acquired 4 and CPI has acquired two seats. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) can also be making an attempt its luck and has fielded 37 candidates.
Both the TMC and the BJP have pitched exhausting to realize the arrogance of Matuas, who make for a big chunk of the state’s Scheduled Caste inhabitants, in many of the 17 meeting segments going to polls on this section in North 24 Parganas district and among the 9 seats in Nadia.
Prominent names within the sixth section of the meeting polls embrace BJP’s nationwide vice chairman Mukul Roy, TMC ministers Jyotipriyo Mallick and Chandrima Bhattacharya and CPI(M) chief Tanmay Bhattacharya. The political destiny of movie director Raj Chakraborty and actor Koushani Mukherjee, who’re the TMC’s candidates from the Barrackpore and the Krishnanagar North constituencies respectively, can even be determined on this section.
The Election Commission has mentioned that voting will likely be performed adhering to strict COVID-19 protocols. The voters will likely be given hand gloves whereas sporting of masks is obligatory. Those with out masks will likely be given masks on the polling sales space. The temperature of voters can even be checked on the entrance of the polling room.
West Bengal registered its highest single-day spike of 10,784 contemporary Covid-19 instances, which took the tally within the state to six,88,956, the well being division mentioned on Wednesday. The loss of life toll additionally rose to 10,710 after 58 contemporary fatalities had been reported.
Ahead of the Phase 6 of the Assembly Elections, the Election Commission knowledgeable the Trinamool Congress at this time that its suggestion to membership the remaining three phases of the meeting polls within the state was not implementable.
