Trinamool Congress leader Madan Mitra has been admitted to SSKM Hospital due to respiratory problems. According to sources, Mitra, one of the main leaders of the Trinamool Congress, fell ill in the middle of the mitra Bengal elections.
More than one crore voters in West Bengal, 306 candidates will decide their political fate on Thursday when 43 votes will be cast in the Assembly constituency. Security has been beefed up in the wake of earlier incidents of violence, especially in the wake of the deaths of five people in Cooch Behar in the fourth phase of the April 10 polls, an Election Commission official said.
He said the survey panel had decided to deploy at least 1,0711 central forces in the sixth phase to ensure free and fair voting. Measures will also be taken to ensure strict adherence to the COVID-19 protocols during the voting process, the official said. The maximum one-day spike in West Bengal on Tuesday was identified as 9,819 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the number down to 6,78,172 and at least 46 more people died from the infection, bringing the number to 10,652.
