Covid-19 | Trinamool likely to seek single day’s polling for remaining phases in Bengal
The Hindu
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With the country in the midst of a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is likely to ask the EC to hold polling for all the remaining Assembly constituencies in West Bengal on a single day, instead of following the existing schedule with four phases still to go. So far, the West Bengal Assembly polls have been held for 135 seats, and the remaining 159 seats go to the polls between April 17 and 29.More Related News
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