West Bengal: Left announces candidate for Karimpur by-polls
Kolkata/IBNS: The Left on Thursday announced its candidate for Karimpur assembly by-elections which is due to be held on Nov 25.
Left candidate Golam Rabbi will be supported by ally Congress.
"I urge all people who are against the BJP and Trinamool to support us," CPI-M leader Biman Bose said here while announcing the candidate's name.
The Congress will field its candidates- to be supported by the Left- in Kaliaganj and Kharagpur Sadar where by-polls will be held on the same day.
The Karimpur and Kharagpur seats fell vacant after the leaders of Trinamool Congress and BJP, Mahua Moitra and Dilip Ghosh respectively, resigned as they were elected as the Lok Sabha MPs in 2019.
The Kaliaganj seat fell vacant after Congress veteran and MLA, Pramathanath Roy, passed away in May this year.
The three by-polls will be the first political contest in the state after the Lok Sabha polls in which the BJP emerged as the prime challenger to the West Bengal's ruling party Trinamool.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha, the Congress had managed to win just two seats while the Left was wiped out of the state.
The BJP had won 18 seats just four less than the Trinamool.
The results of the by-polls will be declared on Nov 28.
(Image Credit: CPI-M Twitter)
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