WB Cong Chief Adhir Chowdhury Seeks Deferment Of Polling To After Ramzan And COVID– News18 Beganli
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#Kolkata: On the one hand, election campaigns, meetings, road shows are not being stopped. On the other hand, corona infection is getting bigger and bigger. The number of victims is breaking records day by day. Multiple Corona warnings have been issued. Multiple bans have also been imposed on the election campaign. Reduced time. But the promotion was not banned. In this situation, Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has written a letter to the Election Commission requesting to stop the election for the time being. “Before human life, elections can be done,” he wrote. In the letter, Adhir appealed for elections in Bengal as soon as the situation of Ramadan and Corona came under complete control.
Seeing the growing corona infection in Bengal, the Left party has decided to cancel the election campaign and public meeting. Then the Chief Minister of the state also followed the same path. Earlier, Mamata had asked the Election Commission to combine the remaining three points. But the Trinamool supremo rushed to his campaign meeting as the commission was unresponsive. On Sunday night, Derek and Bryan tweeted from their Twitter handles, “Mamata Banerjee has decided not to hold an election rally in Kolkata anymore, given the Corona situation. She will hold a symbolic rally on April 26. But only 30 minutes for campaigning in all districts.” Has been given “.
This time the Congress also said the same thing. On Monday, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, president of the provincial Congress, wrote a letter to the Election Commission. He wrote in the letter, “I request the Election Commission to stop the election in this extreme situation. First the lives of the people, then everything else. The election can be held later, the people must be saved.” He further said that the election could be held only after the end of the holy month of Ramadan and the situation in Corona is under control. He wrote that since two candidates from Samserganj and Jangipur in Murshidabad had died due to covid infection, the Election Commission had to take a quick decision in this regard. Adhir Chowdhury has written a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer Sushil Kumar to this effect.
#WestBengalElections: “Since 2 candidates died due to COVID in Murshidabad, I plead that election if at all is to be done, should be after ‘Ramjan’ is over & present pandemic is diluted,” writes West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in a letter to Election Commission. pic.twitter.com/809u4DaB7s
– ANI ()ANI) April 19, 2021
On the other hand, the leftists have also made the same demand. After this, they are talking about re-election in Samsherganj and Jangipur. In fact, the commission has announced May 13 as the date for re-election in Samsherganj and Jangipur. In other words, after the result of the vote is out, voting will take place in these two centers. That is why the voters here are a little angry. On the other hand, 13 May Eid. It is also thought that minority voters will not want to go to the polls that day. In this situation, the leftists also want the vote to take place after Ramadan. In these two centers, the commission canceled the vote after the candidate of two political parties died due to corona infection. Rezaul Haque Corona, a Congress candidate from Samsherganj, has died of an infection. On the other hand, RSP candidate from Jangipur center Pradeep Nandi also died of corona.
