Bhabanipur assembly bypoll News
EC asked WB govt to ensure post-poll violence doesn't occur.
After 11th round, Banerjee was leading by 34,000 votes from Bhabanipur seat.
The case has been against- Sukanta Majumder, MP Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato, MP Arjun Singh and one more.
Kolkata Police has pressed charges of unlawful assembly and rioting.
Mamata is pitted in the by-poll against Priyanka Tibrewal of the BJP and CPI-M's Srijib Biswas
Tibrewal is a lawyer and one of the petitioners in a string of PILs filed against the TMC govt over incidents of post-poll violence
Priyanka Tibrewal had contested the assembly election from Entally and lost
Advocate Priyanka Tibrewal was the legal adviser of Babul Supriyo
She earlier contested Kolkata Municipal Council poll as a BJP candidate in 2015 but lost to TMC's Swapan Sammadar
Tibrewal joined the BJP in August 2014 and has reportedly handled several important tasks
Mamata Banerjee will begin her Bhabanipur assembly bypoll campaign today
Congress party will not field any candidate against her
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