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Battleground Bengal: Demand for clubbing phases after surge in Covid cases Matter likely to be brought up at all-party meeting with EC today to club phases 7 and 8
16 Apr 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic is showing no signs of dissipating, and the impact is being felt nationwide with over a lakh new cases being reported every day for a few weeks now. But now the impact is also being felt in West Bengal where the first four phases of the Assembly Election have concluded, but there are four more phases to go.
Rezaul Haque, the Congress candidate from the Murshidabad seat of Samserganj, has already succumbed to the disease. Meanwhile, three other electoral hopefuls are suffering from the infection. According to The Telegraph, RSP’s Jangipur (Murshidabad) candidate Pradip Nandy and Trinamul’s Goalpokhor (North Dinajpur) candidate Gulam Rabbani and Jalpaiguri nominee P.K. Burma, are all Covid positive.
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