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Didi not to campaign in Kolkata: Derek O'Brien

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien tweeted on Sunday that Mamata Banerjee will not be campaigning in Kolkata anymore. Bane...


Kolkata: Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien tweeted on Sunday that Mamata Banerjee will not be campaigning in Kolkata anymore. Banerjee will only hold a "symbolic" meeting on April 26, the last day of campaigning in the state capital, he said.

"Mamata Banerjee will NOT campaign in Kolkata anymore. Only one 'symbolic'' meeting on the last day of campaigning in the city on April 26. Slashes time for all her election rallies in all districts. Restricted to just 30 minutes," the Rajya Sabha member said on Twitter.

West Bengal has seen a sudden spike in Covid-19 cases. The number of cases soared to 6,59,927 as the state registered its highest single-day spike of 8,419 fresh infections on Sunday, the state health department has informed.

Amid the spike in Covid-19 cases in the state, the Chief Minister has said her party would organise small meetings in Kolkata and she would only give short speeches in rallies in those districts where polling would be held in the remaining three phases.

The party had last week requested the Election Commission to club the remaining phases of the assembly elections into one in view of the grave Covid-19 situation.

The EC has curtailed the timing of the campaign for the remaining phases of the election and has extended the silence period to 72 hours for each phase. In its order, the EC has said that no rallies, public meetings, street plays, nukkad sabhas, will be allowed on any day during the days of the campaign between 7 pm and 10 am. (Agencies)

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