On the backfoot of the R G Kar rape and homicide problem, West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress occasion is eyeing the upcoming by-polls for six Meeting constituencies in West Bengal, seats for 5 of which the TMC had received within the 2021 Meeting elections.
Regardless of important setbacks for the TMC since their landslide Lok Sabha victory this yr, most notably due to the R G Kar case and protests, occasion leaders nonetheless appear assured of a victory within the by-polls to be held on November 13.
The Election Fee of India (ECI) Tuesday introduced these by-polls for Sitai (SC), Madarihat (ST), Naihati, Haroa, Medinipur, and Taldangra as their MLAs contested and received seats within the Lok Sabha this yr.
Steady protests by junior medical doctors for the final two months compelled the TMC authorities to switch the Kolkata police commissioner, Director of Medical Training, and Director of Well being Service, amidst mounting allegations of corruption and a scarcity of cooperation with medical doctors and protestors.
Nevertheless, a senior TMC chief stated, “It’s true our picture was tarnished. However that doesn’t imply our election equipment is weakened. That was intact and this motion has no impression within the village areas of West Bengal… it is vitally a lot an urban-based motion. That solely impacts the Naihati votebank. Aside from that, our vote equipment remained intact.
In bypolls, ruling events all the time get a bonus. So, we expect not solely a win in these six seats, however a win with thumping margins.”
TMC chief Kunal Ghosh stated, “TMC will win all six seats and CPIM will get the third place in each seat. I’m difficult CPIM and their senior medical doctors who’re upsetting junior medical doctors for fasting unto demise and roaming round… if they’ve braveness, considered one of them needs to be made a candidate and we are going to see what number of votes they get.”
In the meantime, in response to that, CPIM chief Shatarup Ghosh stated, “The occasion will resolve who would be the candidate. First… Kunal Ghosh ought to seem as a candidate, at the very least within the panchayat. Second — our enchantment to the folks of West Bengal — even when the corruption of the TMC might be tolerated, allow them to decide if this conceitedness of the TMC might be tolerated.”
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya stated, “The place folks will be capable to vote fearlessly, they are going to vote in opposition to the TMC. Kunal Ghosh is a smart individual. He realised that his future is as a political commentator and he’s practising it.”
Notably, whereas the TMC maintained their dominance within the Lok Sabha elections this yr, the BJP was forward of them in two of those constituencies: Madarihat and Medinipur by 9,000 and 11,000 votes respectively. Then again, the TMC was forward in Sitai (29,000), Naihati (15,000), Taldangra (8,000), and Haroa (1,10,000).
