Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Priyanka Tibrewal and Left Front candidate Shreejib Biswas on Monday Nomination filed for Bhawanipur by-election. Mr Vishwas is contesting on a CPI(M) ticket.
two candidates face to face Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who filed her nomination on September 10. The Chief Minister also participated in the campaign and spoke to voters in Ekbalpur area.
Ms. Tibrewal was accompanied by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and BJP’s Lok Sabha MP Arjun Singh. Mr. Adhikari, who contested against the Chief Minister in Nandigram and defeated him by a margin of 1,956 votes, urged the voters to elect Ms. Tibrewal.
Later in the day, the BJP wrote a letter to the Election Commission of India demanding a free and fair Elections in Samserganj, Jangipur and Bhawanipur assembly seats. It demanded deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) at all polling stations. It urged the Election Commission to transfer the officers posted for more than three years and said that no state government official should be appointed on election duty as the employees union has openly offered its support to Ms Banerjee. has promised.
In the 2021 assembly elections, TMC candidate Sovandeb Chattopadhyay won the seat by a margin of around 27,000 votes. He resigned, paving the way for Ms Banerjee to contest the by-election. Ms Banerjee represented the constituency in 2011 and 2016.
During the day, the Calcutta High Court heard a PIL challenging the bypolls. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal asked why the petition was filed long after the Election Commission’s announcement. The matter will be heard again on September 20. Bypolls to all three seats are to be held on September 30.
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