The Election Commission of India (ECI) Saturday announced holding bypolls on September 30 in one assembly constituency of Odisha and three of West Bengal, including the Bhawanipur seat, from where chief minister Mamata Banerjee is slated to contest.
바카라 웹사이트The EC has not announced dates for by-polls in other 31 Assembly Constituencies including four in West Bengal) and three Parliamentary constituencies across India lying vacant due to death and resignation of winners.바카라 웹사이트
According to an Election Commission press note, the West Bengal chief secretary has informed that in view of administrative exigencies and public interest and to avoid a vacuum in the state, bye-elections for Bhabanipur, from where CM Mamata Banerjee intends to contest elections, may be conducted.
바카라 웹사이트"While the commission has decided not to hold bye-elections in other 31 Assembly Constituencies and three Parliamentary constituencies (across India), considering the constitutional exigency and special request from state of West Bengal, it has decided to hold bye-election in 159-Bhabanipur AC," it said.
Banerjee lost the Assembly election from the Nandigram constituency, about 170 km from her home, while her party won 213 seats banking on her name. She had to be elected by바카라 웹사이트November 5바카라 웹사이트to continue as the chief minister.바카라 웹사이트
Apart from Bhawanipur, elections will be held at West Bengal's Jangipur and Samserganj , where polling did not take place due to the death of candidates at the campaign stage., and바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트Pipli in Odisha.
The results will be announced on바카라 웹사이트October 3.바카라 웹사이트
Bhawanipur is Banerjee's own backyard. She lives there and represented Bhawanipur in 2011 and 2016. This time, she changed her seat to take on party rebel Suvendu Adhikary, contesting against the latter on his home turf. She lost by a slender margin and the party has challenged the Nandigram result in Calcutta high court.바카라 웹사이트
바카라 웹사이트Senior TMC leader Sobhandeb Chatterjee won from Bhawanipur but later resigned to make way for the chief minister to contest the by-poll.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트
Chatterjee, also a minister, is slated to contest바카라 웹사이트from Khardah, where the TMC's winning candidate died of Covid-19 even before the results were announced. But bye-election dates for Khardah and three other seats have not been announced. The TMC's Gosaba MLA Jayanta Naskar died of Covid-19 after being elected, requiring by-poll there, too.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트
The state's ruling party, the Trinamool Congress, had been mounting pressure on the ECI over the past couple of바카라 웹사이트months, demanding that dates for byelection be announced, claiming that the state's pandemic situation had come under control.바카라 웹사이트
바카라 웹사이트Other seats requiring bye-elections include Santipur and Dinhata, which sitting BJP MPs Jagannath Sarkar and Nishith Pramanik won but resigned to retain their Lok Sabha membership. These seats are lying vacant since even before Bhawanipur.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트
바카라 웹사이트According to political observers, the TMC looks favourite in all three seats.바카라 웹사이트
바카라 웹사이트Of the four others where by-polls have not been announced, the BJP was considered a favourite in only one, Santipur.바카라 웹사이트
바카라 웹사이트(WIth PTI inputs)
