Tight security ahead of Bengal Assembly bypolls today
The Statesman|November 13, 2024
Bypolls for six Assembly constituencies in West Bengal are scheduled for Wednesday with the polling to be conducted under blanket security coverage of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) deployment and 100 per cent webcasting.
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Tight security ahead of Bengal Assembly bypolls today

The six Assembly constituencies that will be going for bypolls include Sitai in Cooch Behar district, Madarihat in Alipurduar, Taldangra in Bankura, Medinipur in West Midnapore district and Haroa and Naihati in North 24 Parganas district.

All the six constituencies are going for bypolls since the erstwhile legislators from there got elected as Lok Sabha members in the general elections this year. In the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections barring Madarihat, where a BJP candidate got elected, Trinamul Congress candidates had won from the other five constituencies.

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