Second phase of West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016 has begun

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Apr 11 2016 11:09 AM
Harshita

Second phase of West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016 has begun

West Bengal Assembly Poll the second phase election has been started this morning for 31 seats, which will decide the future of top state opposition leader in strike. Altogether 163 candidates, including 21 women, are in the fray in those 31 seats of West Midnapore, Bankura and Burdwan districts. And this time, around 70people are eligible to give their vote between 7am to 6pm on Monday.

But the election commission has not provided information about critical polling booths. An alliance of Left Front and Congress have put up a tough fight against Trinamool Congress which aspires to come to power for a consecutive second term.

Besides TMC and the Left-Congress alliance, the BJP, which has only one MLA in the outgoing Assembly, has also fielded candidates from all the seats in the hope of making it a triangular fight. Five-time CPI-M MLA from Narayangarh and Leader of Opposition Surjya Kanta Mishra, senior state Congress leader Manas Bhuniya from Sabang are among the major candidates in this phase.

91-year-old Gyan Singh Sohanpal, the senior most member in the Assembly, is in the fray again from Kharagpur Sadar seat where he is pitted against BJP state president Dilip Ghosh.

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