The Babanipur vote has been announced. Why is it important to Mamata Banerjee? 10 points

   The Electoral Commission announced on Saturday that it would hold by-elections in three West Bengal constituencies, including the Babanipur seat where Trinamool Congress Prime Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee intended to run, and one seat in Odisha on September 30. decided not to run in by-elections in 31 other constituencies The three parliamentary (all over India), considering the absence of a constitution and a special petition from the province of West Bengal, has decided to hold a 159-Bhabanipur AC election, "the Electoral Commission said.

    The Electoral Commission said in a statement that by-elections would be held in Samsherganj and Jangirpur in West Bengal and Pipli in Odisha. The counting of votes will take place on October 3.

     Here are some of the important by-elections in Mamata Banerjee:

1. Voting in the Babanipur seat in West Bengal will give Mamata Banerjee a chance to be a member of the state assembly.

2. He needs to win any meeting seat by mid-November 5 if he is to continue as West Bengal's prime minister.

3. Mamata Banerjee fought in Nandigram during the West Bengal general election elections in 2021 but lost to his former top aide Sovendhu Adhikari, who was vying for the BJP ticket.

4. Defeated by a narrow margin of 1,956 votes to former TMC leader Suvendu Adhikari. Adhikari is now the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal conference.

 5. Mamata Banerjee won in Babanipur in 2011 and 2016.

6. Mamata's party, the Trinamool Congress, has been putting pressure on the ECI to hold elections saying Covid's status in the state was under control.

7. The BJP, on the other hand, opposes vote-taking, citing legal and regulatory issues and post-test violence.

8. The Electoral Commission states in a press release that the Secretary General of West Bengal has announced that the by-elections in Babanipur, in which CM Mamata Banerjee intends to run, may be held due to administrative and public interest conditions and avoidance in the province.

9. West Bengal Agriculture Minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay resigned from a provincial meeting in May for Banerjee to run for re-election since 2011. Chattopadhyay won the Babanipur area south of Kolkata in the recent elections.

10. Elections in the Samsherganj and Jangipur constituencies in West Bengal will be held after a postponement of voting in April due to the death of their nominees.