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BJP announces candidates for West Bengal by-polls

The  BJP, on Saturday evening, has announced candidates for six assembly constituencies in West Bengal that will be going for bypolls on Nov...


The BJP, on Saturday evening, has announced candidates for six assembly constituencies in West Bengal that will be going for bypolls on November 13, the counting for which will be on November 23.

The six assembly constituencies that will be going for polls next month are Sitai in Cooch Behar district, Madarihat in Alipurduar district, Naihati and Haroa in North 24 Parganas, Medinipur in West Midnapore district and Taldangra in Bankura district.

As power a statement issued by BJP on Saturday evening the six candidates are Dipak Kumar Roy from Sitai, Rahul Lohar from Madarihat, Rupak Mitra from Naihati, Bimal Das from Haroa, Subhajit Roy from Medinipur and Ananya Roy Chakraborty from Taldangra.

BJP is among the first major political parties active in West Bengal to announce their candidates for the six assembly constituencies. The other three major political forces namely the ruling Trinamool Congress, Congress, and CPI(M)-led Left Front are yet to announce their candidates for the bypolls.

It is yet uncertain whether the Congress and the Left Front will continue with their seat-sharing arrangement as they did since the 2016 West Bengal assembly elections.

All these six constituencies are going for by-polls as their erstwhile MLAs are currently in the Lok Sabha after getting elected in the general elections this year.

Barring Madarihat, which had an erstwhile BJP legislator, Trinamool Congress candidates got elected from the remaining five in the 2021 West Bengal assembly polls.

The by-polls are extremely crucial for both Trinamool Congress and BJP considering that they will conduct in the backdrop of the boiling situation in West Bengal amid the rape and murder of a lady junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata within the hospital premises in August this year.

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