West Bengal Assembly Elections: The eighth and final round of polling will be held on Thursday. (File)
Kolkata: Bengal votes today in the seventh, and penultimate, phase of its Assembly election, amid a steady spike in Covid cases over the past weeks. Mamata Banerjee s former seat - Bhabanipur - and three ministers are among the high-profile names in play.
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In a last-gasp attack on the opposition BJP, Chief Minister Banerjee on Sunday evening tore into the centre over its handling of the Covid pandemic, paying particular attention to the crippling oxygen shortage and row over vaccine prices. She also urged people, even those who are Covid-positive, and for whom the Election Commission has made arrangements, to cast their vote.
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Trinamool banking on Muslim voters, women to return to power
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West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee during election campaign at Nandigram in West Bengal on March 30, 2021. (Photo: /IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Kolkata, April 12 : Though the BJP has made a convincing dent into the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled tribe votes and the Muslim that constitute 30 per cent of the electorate, the population stands divided between Trinamool congress and The Indian Secular Front (ISF) floated by Muslim cleric Abbas Siddiqui. Yet, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is trying to bank on the women and minority votes to sail through the election this year. Considering this poll mathematics there are some seats across the state which can be considered to be safe for the ruling Trinamool Congress.
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