Kolkata: Head of West Bengal Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said his government had told the election commission that the state was prepared to hold elections to seven assembly seats because the Covid-19 situation was a region bound by this poll in mostly controlled.
, Banerjee, during the press meeting here, noted that the EC had tried to find out whether Bengal was ready to conduct a poll to two empty Sabha’s chairs, and the main secretary, in the answer, providing certainty that the state could also embrace seven assembly constituencies, while hold on to all Covid-19 guidelines.
“With the covid-19 front level it has dropped to 1.5 percent in Bengal, the situation is conducive to elections because most of the polls have not reported fresh infections lately,” he said.
In a BJP at BJP, who claimed that Banerjee was very waiting for Bypolls when he needed to be selected for the Assembly to defend the CM seat, the TMC boss said the Safron Party was contrary to such demand would not be able to reach any seats.
“We have placed our demands before EC following all constitutional norms.
There is no illegal about it.
If an emergency situation appears, the EC will make a decision.
But isn’t Covid-19 controlled in seven seats now? Some Bhabanipur Havent wards report any case Over the past few days, “he said.
Banerjee, who lost the election of Nandigram, is expected to submit a nomination from Bhabanipur, which was emptied by winning the TMC candidate Sobhandebeb Chatttopadhyay, shortly after the results were stated.
Chattopadhyay is scheduled to compete by the election of Khardah, which fell emptiness after Kajal Sinha TMC surrendered to Covid-19.
In Gosaba also, the winning candidate for TMC Jayanta Naskar died of Covid’s related complications.
Polls were canceled in Jangipur and Samserganj after the death of candidates, also due to viral diseases.
In Dinhata and Santipur, the BJP nomination that won stopped as Mla because they wanted to defend parliamentary beds.
Two chairs of Rajya Sabha fell vacant in the state after Dinesh Trivedi stopped from the upper membership in February this year, after turning to BJP from TMC, and the selection of Manas Bhuniya as MLA in the March-April Assembly poll.
Meanwhile, the TMC delegation – consisted of Member of the Crane O’Brien Parliament, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy and Bandyopadhyay Sudip – Visiting the EC office in Delhi on Thursday and appealed to the poll panel to do Bypoll in Bengal at the earliest moment.
Party, in memorandum to EC, said that if the assembly selection can be held at the peak of a pandemic, the Bypolls can be held when the case is significantly lower.