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The districts are Murshidabad, Malda, South 24-Parganas, North 24-Parganas, Birbhum and Uttar Dinajpur. In these six districts taken together, Muslims make up 42.04% of the population. ....
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. ....
West Bengal Election 2021: Bengal votes in the fifth phase today (Representational) New Delhi: West Bengal is voting today in the fifth phase of the assembly elections held amid an alarming surge of coronavirus cases across the country. 45 seats are going to polls in the biggest of the state s eight-phased elections. Jalpaiguri, Kalimpong, Darjeeling and a part of Nadia, North 24 Parganas and Purba Bardhaman will vote today in which a total of 319 candidates, including 39 women are contesting. Bengal has already voted for 135 seats and after today s voting, results for more than half of its 294 seats will be sealed. High-profile contestants include the Trinamool s Bratya Basu, Gautam Deb and Siddiqullah Chowdhury, and the BJP s Jagannath Sarkar - one of five MPs nominated by the party. ....
The upcoming phases covers the Muslim-dominated districts of Uttar Dinajpur, Malda and Murshidabad. The fact that ISF is contesting 31 seats in an alliance with the CPM, Congress and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) that has fielded candidates in 13 seats of Murshidabad, will not matter for Muslim voters this time, says Chowdhury. ....
The 31 seats going to polls on Tuesday in the third phase will decide whether the new political equation put forth by the CPM and agreed upon, albeit reluctantly, by the Congress will change Bengal’s political landscape. In their struggle for existence, the two parties have held the hand of a religious leader from the minority community who keeps the skullcap on his head, but talks about education, jobs, Hindu-Muslim and Muslim-Dalit unity and not the dogma that he spewed till even a year ago. The next phase of polls in parts of South 24-Parganas, Howrah and Hooghly does not have the high profile focus of the second phase that saw Mamata Banerjee and Suvendu Adhikary locking horns in Nandigram. But it will be watched for Indian Secular Front (ISF) chief Abbas Siddiqui, the newest entrant in Bengal’s politics who has latched on to two grand old parties: the Congress and the Left. ....