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Bengal Votes In 5th Phase Under Shadow Of Covid Surge: 10 Facts Bengal Elections Phase 5: On Thursday, Mamata Banerjee and members of her Trinamool strongly demanded that the three remaining phases - scheduled for April 22, 26 and 29 - be clubbed to check the spread of the coronavirus.
Updated: April 17, 2021 8:17 am IST
West Bengal is voting for 45 of 294 seats today.
Kolkata/ New Delhi: Bengal is voting for 45 of 294 seats today in the fifth - and biggest - of its eight poll phases, which are being held amid a surge in Covid cases - over four lakh have been reported in the past 48 hours.
Why Are Rahul Gandhi, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Campaigning on Two Different Lines in Bengal?
While Gandhi has been targeting the Narendra Modi government, and relatively speaking little of TMC and Mamata Banerjee, Chowdhury has been unleashing severe criticism against Banerjee.
Rahul Gandhi and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. Illustration: The Wire/Facebook.
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When the West Bengal assembly election is making national headlines daily and virtually eclipsed elections that got over in three other states and one union territory, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi only arrived in the state on April 14âwhen four of eight phases of the election got over.
Bengal polls: Three TMC, one BJP candidate among five to test COVID positive ahead of fifth phase
RSP s Jangipur candidate, 73-year-old Pradip Kumar Nandi, tested positive on Wednesday and is now in home isolation, the official said.
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KOLKATA: At least five candidates of different parties contesting the ongoing assembly election in West Bengal have tested positive for COVID-19, a health department official said on Friday.
Out of the five candidates who tested positive, three are from the Trinamool Congress (TMC), and one each from the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he said.
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