Mamata Banerjee took oath as the state’s chief minister on May 5. As per law, the TMC chief needs to get elected to Bengal assembly by November 5 in order to continue in her postThe by-election to Bhabanipur assembly seat in south Kolkata, being contested Officials said that Mamata Banerjee retained the post of Chief Minister of West Bengal, which started under strict security measures at 7am on Thursday morning. The elections for the Samserganj and Jangipur parliamentary seats in Murshidabad, Bangladesh are also held today because the elections were postponed in April after the death of the two candidates.

The counting of votes will take place on October 3. After Sovandeb Chatterjee, the current legislator of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) from Baba Nipur, resigned, voting became necessary so that Banerjee could run for her seat and retain her seat. Although the Trinamool Congress swept parliament in a parliamentary poll after winning 213 of the 292 controversial seats in April this year and returned to power for the third consecutive term, Banerjee still lost from Nandigram. Suvendu Adhikari of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who turned her disciple into an opponent.

She, however, took oath as the state’s chief minister on May 5. As per law, the TMC leader needs to get elected to the state assembly by November 5 in order to continue in her post. “About 35 companies of the central force have been deployed in Babanipur. In addition, 38 police pickets have been established. A central police observer has been deployed. There are 287 stalls in the constituency,” said the Indian Election Commission. An official said. Despite the accumulation of water in several pockets of Babanipur, the heavy rain that hit Kolkata has stopped. “The water level has dropped. Except for a few pockets, the water level has dropped and people have started voting,” said Firhad Hakim, chairman of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Management Committee. The electoral district has 206,389 voters, of which 95,143 are female voters, accounting for approximately 46%. More than 20% of the residents of Babanipur are Muslims, while Sikhs and non-Bengali Hindus make up about 34% of the local population.

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