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Campaign
ends for first phase of polling in West Bengal
Saturday April 16, 2011 08:06:44 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Campaign
drums fell silent Saturday in 54 West Bengal assembly constituencies
spread across the state's six northern districts where polling will
be held in the first phase of election Monday.
The colourful campaign stretching from the picturesque Darjeeling
hills in the extreme north to Malda came to an end at 5 p.m.
The campaign had been by and large peaceful.
Leading political luminaries like Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, party
general secretary Rahul Gandhi, union Finance Minister Pranab
Mukheree, and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)stalwarts L.K. Advani,
Nitin Gadkari and Arun Jaitley campaigned for their party
candidates.
Left Front chairman and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)
state secretary Biman Bose, CPI-M politburo member Sitaram Yechuri
and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee also wooed voters in
the six districts - Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, North
Dinajpur, South Dinajpur and Malda.
The CPI-M is contesting in 32 seats, the CPI 2, Forward Bloc 10,
Revolutionary Communist Party (RSP) 9, Socialist Party 1, the
Trinamool Congress 26, the Congress 27, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
one, and the BJP 49.
Altogether 364 candidates are in the fray while the total number of
eligible voters is 9,748,839.
West Bengal goes to poll in six phases to elect a 294-member
assembly April 18-May 10. The counting of votes will take place May
13.
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