Kolkata: Election Commission on Saturday announced bypoll to the constituency of the Bhowanipore Assembly will be held on September 30, paving the way for Mamata Banerjee to take the opportunity to enter the state legislature within six months sworn as Bengal CM.
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The decision, the EC said, followed the “special request” of the Bengali government highlighting “constitutional exigution” has the selection and risk of “constitutional and vacuum crisis” if not held.
Secretary of the Head of State HK Dwivedi wrote to EC on September 1, emphasizing the “constitutional exigue” from Bhowanipore Bypoll.
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee “intends to oppose the election” remember “administrative exigence and public interest and to avoid the void in the country”, the letter said.
Banerjee was sworn in as bengal cm for the third time in May 5.
He will stop being a “minister” if he is not a member of the State Assembly within six months (on November 5), according to Article 164 (4) Constitution.
EC on Saturday said he had decided to give a nod to Bypoll in Bhowanipore “considering the ecegrition of the constitution and a special request from Bengal”.
“The Secretary of the Head of State was informed that the Covid-19 situation was fully controlled, the situation of flooding in the country did not affect the constituency of polls and the state was fully directed to hold elections.
He also quoted Article 164 (4) Constitution and the possibility of a crisis and constitutional emptiness at the Executive Post The peak in government unless the selection was held immediately, “EC said.
Two other Bengal assembly chairs – Jangipur and Shamservanj, both at Murshidabad – will have a bypoll on the same day.
Counting for all three seats will be held on October 3.
Trinamool Sovandebadhyay veteran candidate won Bhowanipore in the assembly poll earlier this year, pocketed more than 57% of the votes, but then resigned from the assembly a few days later.
Banerjee lost a poll from Nandigram with a narrow margin of 1,956 votes to Suvendu Adhikari BJP, making it important for him to enter the legislative assembly of other constituencies.
Trinamool has opposed Nandigram results and the case is sub-too.
Trinamool leader welcomed the EC decision and said declaring the nomination of Banerjee from Bhowanipore was a “mere formality”.
Poster welcomed Banerjee as a party candidate from Bhowanipore – he also lived in elections – appearing within a few hours after the announcement.
“Unnour Ghore Ghore, Ghorer Meye Bhowanipore E (every house will see progress as Bhowanipore’s daughter returns home),” read one of them.
Banerjee was studied to cancel the North Bengal trip on September 6-9.
The last day for archiving nominations is September 13.
Bengal BJP questioned the EC decision.
“Bypolls are scheduled for five seats.
I hope the EC is not affected,” said BJP Bengal President Bjp Ghosh.
Bypolls are not held in Khardah (where the candidate winner of Trinamool Kajal Sinha died because the poll was held), Gosaba (where Trinamool’s Jayanta Naskar died of Covid after taking the oath of MLA), Dinhata and Shantipur (where the BJP pramanik niss) and Sarkar Subhas won And then chose to resign after becoming a junior minister center).
Banerjee, for most of the last three decades, has required elections from the election where he is a voter.
He is MP Kolkata (South) from 1991 to 2011 and then MLA Bhowanipore from 2011 to 2021.