Mamta’s fate will be decided today
West Bengal Bypoll Counting: Counting of votes for the Assembly bypolls held in West Bengal is going on. Voting was held on 30 September in three assembly seats of West Bengal, Bhawanipur, Jangipur and Shamsherganj. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in the fray on behalf of Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Bhawanipur Legislative Assembly seat. On the other hand, BJP has fielded Priyanka Tibrewal against him. To remain the Chief Minister of West Bengal, it is necessary for Mamata Banerjee to win the Bhawanipur seat today.
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BJP candidate from Bhawanipur seat of West Bengal Priyanka Tibrewal has written a letter to the Calcutta High Court, in which she has expressed the possibility of violence.
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The counting of votes for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election has started from 8 am today (Sunday). There will be 21 rounds of counting.
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Let us tell you that to remain the CM of West Bengal, Mamta Banerjee will have to become a member of the Legislative Assembly of the state before November 5. Otherwise he will have to leave his post. According to Article 164(4) of the Constitution, if a person is not a member of the Legislative Assembly and becomes the Chief Minister, then he has to become a member of the Legislative Assembly or Legislative Council of the state within 6 months. West Bengal does not have a Legislative Council, so Mamata Banerjee will have to become a member of the Legislative Assembly.
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CM Mamata Banerjee lost the Nandigram seat of West Bengal to BJP’s Shubhendu Adhikari by 1,956 votes in the 2021 assembly elections.
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It is noteworthy that in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election 2021, Shobhanadev Chattopadhyay of TMC had won from Bhawanipur Assembly seat. Shobhandev Chattopadhyay resigned from the post of MLA for Mamata Banerjee.
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Let us know that in the by-election, 76.12 percent voting was done in Jangipur Legislative Assembly seat and 78.60 percent people voted in Shamsherganj Legislative Assembly seat.
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Voting was held on 30 September for the by-election to the Bhawanipur Legislative Assembly seat of West Bengal (WB Byelection Vote Counting). 53.32 percent of the citizens had cast their vote in the by-election.
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Let us inform that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is contesting the bypoll from Bhawanipur seat of West Bengal. This has been the traditional seat of Mamata Banerjee, but in the last election she contested from Nandigram, where she was defeated by BJP’s Shubhendu Adhikari.
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