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ECI reacts to TMC s memorandum, calls it insinuation and averments which question Commission s creation and functioning Joymala Bagchi, ANI | Updated: Mar 11, 2021 23:34 IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 11 (ANI): Reacting to Trinamool Congress s memorandum submitted to West Bengal CEO, the Election Commission of India said that it is unfortunate and full of insinuation and averments which question the creation and functioning of the Commission.
The letter written to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) by the Election Commission of India (ECI) says, It is completely incorrect to say that the Commission has taken over the law and order machinery in the state in the name of conducting the election and appropriated the whole governance structure.
West Bengal Polls: Mamata Banerjee files nomination from Nandigram
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Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 14:27 [IST]
Kolkata, Mar 10: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee filed her nomination papers from the Nandigram seat on Wednesday, as the stage is set for the Battle Royale in the constituency.
She would then attend a workers meet and return to Kolkata on March 11.
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, whose name was announced as the BJP candidate from the seat on Saturday, will file the nomination on March 12. After filing nomination papers, he will address a rally there, BJP leader Kanishka Panda said.
Nandigram, the cradle of the anti-land acquisition movement that catapulted Banerjee to power in 2011, will witness her once protege Suvendu Adhikari taking on her on April 1, in the second of the eight phases of polling. For 50-year-old Adhikari, the contest in Nandigram will be a fight for his political survival as he had vowed to defeat Banerjee by over 50,000 vote
Updated Mar 10, 2021 | 14:15 IST
Ahead of filing her nomination papers, the West Bengal Chief visited and offered prayers at the Shiv Temple in Nandigram. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee | Photo Credit: ANI
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Suvendu Adhikari to file nomination from Nandigram on March 12, 2021
Nandigram will go to polls on April 1, 2021
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination papers from the Nandigram Assembly seat. The Trinamool Congress chief filed her nomination at the Sub-Divisional Officer s office.
Ahead of filing her nomination papers, the West Bengal Chief visited and offered prayers at the Shiv Temple in Nandigram.
Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 13:54 [IST]
Nandigram, Mar 10: Posters projecting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as an outsider surfaced in Nandigram on Wednesday, the high-profile constituency from where the TMC supremo is set to file her nomination for the assembly polls during the day.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
The posters with Nandigram-Medinipur wants the son of the soil and not outsiders written on them in Bengali were put up in the assembly constituency.
Banerjee is pitted against her former confidante Suvendu Adhikari, who joined the BJP some time ago, in the Nandigram seat that will go to poll on April 1 in the second phase.