Congress Unlikely To Field Candidate Against Mamata Banerjee In Bhabnipur Bypoll
West Bengal: The Congress is unlikely to field its candidate against West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee in the upcoming bypoll in Bhabnipur.
The TMC on Sunday announced Banerjee as its candidate for the bypoll to the South Kolkata Assembly seat.
The announcement came a day after the Election Commission announced a bypoll in the chief minister’s old bastion following a request from the state government to avoid a constitutional crisis.
In the April-May assembly elections in West Bengal, the Nandigram seat was lost to its former close aide and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari. Banerjee has to be elected to the assembly to take over the chief minister’s chair.
The Bengal CM, who came out of her traditional Bhabnipur seat to contest from Nandigram, will be given a chance to become a member of the state assembly and continue as CM.
Bypolls will be held on September 30 along with elections to two seats in Murshidabad district – Samserganj and Jangipur – which could not go to polls in eight phases earlier this year.
The counting of votes will take place on October 3.
The by-election in the Bhabanipur Assembly seat is necessitated after West Bengal agriculture minister and veteran TMC leader Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay vacated the constituency in May this year.
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