West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021: Battle for Calcutta starts on Monday
Four of 11 Assembly segments in Calcutta — Calcutta Port, Bhowanipore, Rashbehari and Ballygunge — go to the polls on Monday. Voters in the remaining seven — Chowringhee, Entally, Beliaghata, Jorasanko, Shyampukur, Maniktala and Kashipur-Belgachia — will exercise their franchise on Thursday, the last day of the eight-phase polls in Bengal. Of the 294 seats in Bengal, Calcutta has barely 4 per cent, but being the state capital, winning city seats is a matter of prestige for political parties. In the 2016 Assembly polls, Trinamul had won all 11 seats comfortably. The 2019 Lok Sabha ...
Source: telegraphindia.com