With the Election Commission announcing bypolls on four assembly seats in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress on Monday wrote to the poll panel and urged it to also conduct bypolls on six other assembly seats that are going vacant as the MLAs from there have been elected as MPs.
On a day when the bypolls were announced on four seats – Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda and Maniktala, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) said there are six more seats that are going to be vacant as the MLAs fought and won in the Lok Sabha elections.
The six seats that will go vacant are Madarihat, Naihati, Taldangra, Mednipur, Sitai and Horao.
A TMC source said five MLAs from the party who got elected have already given their resignation to the speaker of West Bengal Assembly and he had sent the recommendation to the Election Commission to conduct a bypoll.