By PTI
KOLKATA: The stage is ready for a three-cornered contest within the by-poll to the Sagardighi meeting constituency in Murshidabad district on Monday, because the ruling TMC, opposition BJP and the Congress-Left alliance are prepared for the struggle to bag the minority-dominated seat.
The TMC, which has been successful the seat since 2011, received in 2021 by a margin of almost 50,000 votes, securing greater than 50 per cent of the whole votes polled, whereas the BJP and the Congress-Left alliance had bagged 24 per cent and 19 per cent respectively.
The TMC has fielded native chief Debashish Banerjee, who’s up towards Dilip Saha of the BJP, and the Left-supported Congress candidate Bayron Biswas who is called the beedi-baron within the space.
The constituency is understood for its beedi trade and can also be a cradle of migrant labourers, who enterprise out to varied elements of the nation in the hunt for jobs.
Apart from greater than 60 per cent minority inhabitants, the agricultural seat additionally has round 18.5 per cent Scheduled caste and 6.5 per cent Scheduled Tribe inhabitants.
It has roughly 2.3 lakh voters.
The by-poll to the Sagardighi meeting seat was necessitated by the demise of its three-time TMC MLA and state minister Subrata Saha in December final yr.
The TMC, assured of successful the seat for the fourth consecutive time, has employed social gathering nationwide normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee and a number of different prime leaders and ministers to marketing campaign within the space.
“In the by-poll, we must improve our margin further and expose the unholy opposition nexus of BJP, CPI (M) and Congress. I wish to tell everyone here that a vote for the Congress will strengthen the hand of the BJP and its designs to implement NRC in future,” Banerjee had mentioned throughout a current election marketing campaign.
His reference to NRC was a reminder of the violent protest the district had witnessed in December 2019 towards the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Parliament.
The current IT raids on TMC MLA Jakir Hossain from the district have left the ruling social gathering fuming, accusing it of utilizing central companies to threaten the social gathering leaders forward of the by-polls.
The BJP’s large weapons — Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, nationwide vice-president Dilip Ghosh, and state president Sukanta Majumdar – have carried out a whirlwind marketing campaign within the constituency. “If the elections are free and fair, the BJP will win the seat by a record margin. The Sagardighi assembly by-poll will kick off the downfall of the TMC in future,” Adhikari had mentioned.
Congress state president and an MP from the district, Adhir Chowdhury, who’s crisscrossing your complete constituency, is assured that of successful the seat. “The minorities have realised that the TMC and the BJP are both sides of the same coin. The death of student leader Anish Khan and recent graft cases where deserving candidates have been denied jobs as the posts were sold will have an impact on this by-poll,” he mentioned.
The seat was thought of a Congress bastion for the reason that early Fifties until the then-ruling CPI (M) snatched it from the grand previous social gathering within the meeting election of 1987.
Riding on the winds of change, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) snatched it from the Left in 2011.
The Election Commission, in a bid to make sure free and truthful polls, has deployed 30 corporations of central forces within the space.
KOLKATA: The stage is ready for a three-cornered contest within the by-poll to the Sagardighi meeting constituency in Murshidabad district on Monday, because the ruling TMC, opposition BJP and the Congress-Left alliance are prepared for the struggle to bag the minority-dominated seat.
The TMC, which has been successful the seat since 2011, received in 2021 by a margin of almost 50,000 votes, securing greater than 50 per cent of the whole votes polled, whereas the BJP and the Congress-Left alliance had bagged 24 per cent and 19 per cent respectively.
The TMC has fielded native chief Debashish Banerjee, who’s up towards Dilip Saha of the BJP, and the Left-supported Congress candidate Bayron Biswas who is called the beedi-baron within the space.
The constituency is understood for its beedi trade and can also be a cradle of migrant labourers, who enterprise out to varied elements of the nation in the hunt for jobs.
Apart from greater than 60 per cent minority inhabitants, the agricultural seat additionally has round 18.5 per cent Scheduled caste and 6.5 per cent Scheduled Tribe inhabitants.
It has roughly 2.3 lakh voters.
The by-poll to the Sagardighi meeting seat was necessitated by the demise of its three-time TMC MLA and state minister Subrata Saha in December final yr.
The TMC, assured of successful the seat for the fourth consecutive time, has employed social gathering nationwide normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee and a number of different prime leaders and ministers to marketing campaign within the space.
“In the by-poll, we must improve our margin further and expose the unholy opposition nexus of BJP, CPI (M) and Congress. I wish to tell everyone here that a vote for the Congress will strengthen the hand of the BJP and its designs to implement NRC in future,” Banerjee had mentioned throughout a current election marketing campaign.
His reference to NRC was a reminder of the violent protest the district had witnessed in December 2019 towards the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Parliament.
The current IT raids on TMC MLA Jakir Hossain from the district have left the ruling social gathering fuming, accusing it of utilizing central companies to threaten the social gathering leaders forward of the by-polls.
The BJP’s large weapons — Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, nationwide vice-president Dilip Ghosh, and state president Sukanta Majumdar – have carried out a whirlwind marketing campaign within the constituency. “If the elections are free and fair, the BJP will win the seat by a record margin. The Sagardighi assembly by-poll will kick off the downfall of the TMC in future,” Adhikari had mentioned.
Congress state president and an MP from the district, Adhir Chowdhury, who’s crisscrossing your complete constituency, is assured that of successful the seat. “The minorities have realised that the TMC and the BJP are both sides of the same coin. The death of student leader Anish Khan and recent graft cases where deserving candidates have been denied jobs as the posts were sold will have an impact on this by-poll,” he mentioned.
The seat was thought of a Congress bastion for the reason that early Fifties until the then-ruling CPI (M) snatched it from the grand previous social gathering within the meeting election of 1987.
Riding on the winds of change, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) snatched it from the Left in 2011.
The Election Commission, in a bid to make sure free and truthful polls, has deployed 30 corporations of central forces within the space.