By PTI
KOLKATA: BJP candidate Priyanka Tibrewal on Monday filed her nomination for the assembly bypoll in Bhowanipore where she is up against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress candidate. Bhowanipore will go to the polls on September 30 and the results will be declared on October 3.
The CPM has fielded lawyer Srijib Biswas from the seat, while Congress has refrained from taking part in the by-election. Tibrewal, also a lawyer, filed her nomination at the Survey Building in Alipore. She was accompanied by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and BJP MP Arjun Singh, among other senior party leaders.
অত্যাচারী সরকারের মুখ মমতা ব্যানার্জীর বিরুদ্ধে মনোনয়ন পত্র পেশের আগে গোলমন্দিরে এসে ঈশ্বরের আশীর্বাদ নিলামBefore submitting the nomination papers against Mamata Banerjee, the face of unjust tyrannical oppressive government; I came to Golmandir to receive the blessings of God. pic.twitter.com/RDze502shb
— Priyanka Tibrewal (@impriyankabjp) September 13, 2021
TMC’s Sovandeb Chattopadhyay who won the election from Bhabanipur resigned, prompting the Election Commission to declare a by-election so that Banerjee could fight it, having lost the election to Adhikari from Nandigram.
Banerjee has to get elected by November 5 to retain her chief minister’s post.
