Kolkata:
The results for the two bypolls will be announced on October 9. With 66.27% Muslims according to the 2011 census, Murshidabad has the highest minority community population in Bengal. Muslims comprise more than 60% of the Rejinagar voters. Rejinagar is one of the seven assembly segments in the Berhampore Lok Sabha seat that former state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury won five times in a row between 1999 and 2019 before being defeated by then TMC candidate Yusuf Pathan.
All parties geared up on Sunday for the last phase of campaigning at Rejinagar and East Midnapore’s Nandigram.
The state’s former ruling party’s invitation to the Congress and the Left comes as they express solidarity with the Cockroach Janata Party movement demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar following controversy over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in several states. “I have been talking about opposition unity since a long time. All voters have democratic rights but booth agents of opposition parties are often driven by ruling party workers. This happened in the past as well. “Trinamool, Congress and the CPI(M) are virtually non-existent in Bengal. They formed the INDIA coalition but people voted for the BJP in this state.
The Mamata All India Trinamool Congress has called for opposition unity for the October 6 assembly bypoll in Murshidabad district’s Rejinagar, saying they must stop Bengal’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party from attempting to capture polling booths. Because they know that they cannot win the Rejinagar seat,” Sarkar said, these parties are saying these things.
I urge Trinamool supporters to vote for the Congress in the coming election,” Chowdhury told the media in Murshidabad.
“We did not form an alliance with the Congress and CPI(M).
The opposition votes might get divided but the responsibility to protect the polling booths and the right of voters lies with all,” Mamata TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh told the media.
