TMC delegation to fulfill EC tomorrow, urge it to carry by-elections in 6 seats

A Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation will meet Election Commission (EC) officers in New Delhi on Thursday demanding holding of the bypolls in six vacant Assembly seats in West Bengal on the earliest.
“We will meet the EC officials on Thursday and request them to hold the bypolls soon. We will request that a week for campaigning will be enough for the bypolls. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has already said that she will focus on holding the civic polls in the state after the bypolls are over. We will have nothing to say if the EC does not hold the bypolls on time, but will continue with our demand,” TMC MP Sougata Roy mentioned right here on Tuesday.
Mamata Banerjee, who misplaced the Assembly election from Nandigram, should get elected within the subsequent six months to proceed as chief minister. In that case, the bypolls have to be carried out by November 5. After the election outcomes, Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, the TMC MLA from Bhabanipur constituency, vacated the seat to permit Banerjee to contest from there. Banerjee had gained from Bhabanipur twice since 2011.
Dinhata and Santipur Assembly seats fell vacant after BJP leaders Nisith Pramanik and Jagannath Sarkar resigned as MLAs to retain the Lok Sabha membership.
In the Assembly elections, polling couldn’t be held in Samserganj and Jangipur seats in Murshidabad district because of the demise of the candidates. Khardah seat in North 24 Parganas district felt vacant after TMC candidate Kajal Sinha died of Covid-19 earlier than the outcomes have been introduced. Sinha gained the election posthumously.
Meanwhile, state BJP spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya mentioned that his social gathering was not towards the holding of Assembly bypolls. “We are not against holding the bypolls but why is the TMC not holding the civic polls in the state that are due for the last two years. They want bypolls on time but we want the election to the civic bodies be held as early as possible,” the BJP spokesperson mentioned.