Mamata Urges Remaining Phases to Vote in One Day: After a day of deliberations, the Election Commission has decided to keep the pre-determined voting schedule unchanged in the state. Shortly afterward, Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister, and Trinamool supremo tweeted to the commission requesting a joint vote. His tweet, after the 16th, the state’s remaining 3 Phases to vote in one day. Then save some risk of covid infection.
Mamata Urges Remaining Phases to Vote in One Day
Amid an ongoing pandemic, we firmly opposed @ECISVEEP's decision to conduct WB polls in 8 phases.
Now, in view of the huge surge in #COVID19 cases, I urge the ECI to consider holding the remaining phases in ONE go. This will protect the people from further exposure to #COVID19.
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) April 15, 2021
Before that, however, he also strongly objected to the eight-point voting schedule in Bengal. In an interview with a popular television channel on the same day, Mamata Banerjee said, “We have been opposing the eight-point election from the very beginning. There is a stage in all the states, why so many points here? Corona infection is on the rise, was it necessary to vote so many times at this time? ” He gave almost the same message on Twitter that day.
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Voting will be held in 45 centers of the state on the 18th. Then there are the votes on the 22nd, 26th, and 29th. Let these three days of voting be together, this is the demand of several political parties. With this, the officials of the Election Commission of Delhi held a meeting with the concerned districts in a video conference on Thursday. They spoke to Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra. In the end, the commission said, at the moment, it is not possible to hold a three-point vote in one day. After receiving this message, the state’s administrative head tweeted to the commission again in the evening.
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