West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Files Nomination for Bypolls to Bhabanipur Seat

Mamata Banerjee needs to win the bypoll from Bhabanipur to continue as the chief minister of Bengal.

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday, 10 September, filed her nomination for bypolls to the Bhabhanipur seat, reported news agency ANI.

Banerjee lost the Assembly election in Nandigram earlier in 2021 to her former protege and now West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari. She has previously won the Bhabanipur seat twice since 2011 and had moved to Nandigram for the Assembly elections.

Banerjee now needs to win the bypoll from Bhabanipur to continue as the chief minister of Bengal. The BJP has fielded lawyer Priyanka Tibrewal to contest from the seat against Banerjee.

The bypoll will be held on 30 September along with elections to the Samserganj and Jangipur seats, which were unable to go to poll in the Assembly elections.