Mamata Banerjee doesn’t wish to battle a dropping battle therefore she cancels all her remaining rallies

With solely three rounds of polling left within the West Bengal Assembly elections, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appears to have dropped the towel and surrendered. Citing the coronavirus pandemic as the rationale, TMC supremo Mamata on Sunday while chatting with a neighborhood information channel remarked that she is not going to be conducting public election rallies.“I won’t hold big campaign rallies in Kolkata, except one on the last day of campaigning i.e. on April 26,” mentioned Banerjee.Mamata, nonetheless, mentioned her celebration staff would maintain small street-corner conferences. “On my part, I will bring down the duration of my rallies from 60 minutes to 30 minutes,” added the TMC supremo.Read extra: It is evident now. Mamata Banerjee has accepted defeat and is getting ready to save lots of faceMamata has understood that she is waging a misplaced battle in opposition to the BJP wave which is all set to comb TMC out of the state. After going all out in her political rallies by allegedly faking an harm, to accusing the central deployed forces of rigging the elections to resorting to violence, Mamata tried all of the tips within the e-book to style a comeback within the state. However, sensing that the assist was nonetheless not constructing in her favour, the TMC chief took the choice of calling it quits.Read extra: ‘Didi provoked voters to attack CISF personnel,’ FIR lodged in opposition to Mamata in Cooch BeharAs reported by TFI, Mamata’s announcement comes recent on the heels of Congress scion Rahul Gandhi’s resolution to not conduct political rallies in West Bengal.“In view of the Covid situation, I am suspending all my public rallies in West Bengal. I would advise all political leaders to think deeply about the consequences of holding large public rallies under the current circumstances,” Gandhi mentioned on Twitter.2-0=2— Atul Mishra (@TheAtulMishra) April 18, 2021Read extra: 2-0=2. After extensively campaigning in Kerala and different states the place Congress might need an opportunity, an inconsequential Rahul Gandhi cancels WB rallies resulting from COVID-19It is a common reality acknowledged by all that Congress is a hopeless case in West Bengal. Thus, the truth that Gandhi canvasses for the votes or not doesn’t actually make a huge effect. If Rahul was certainly virtuous, he would have cancelled political rallies within the South the place he had camped for his celebration. The ethical grandstanding by Mamata Banerjee and Rahul Gandhi comes at a time when the Election Commission has itself taken varied steps to make sure that the unfold of Coronavirus throughout the subsequent three phases of polling is inhibited.In its order which got here into impact final Friday, the EC mentioned that no rallies, public conferences, road performs, nukkad sabhas, shall be allowed on any day throughout the days of the marketing campaign between 7 pm and 10 am. Further, the EC additionally prolonged the silence interval to 72 hours for every of the remaining phases.