WB LF demands Asansol, Bidhannagar civic polls on Oct 3

The West Bengal Left Front today demanded that the civic polls for the reconstituted Asansol Municipal Corporation and the newly constituted Bidhannagar civic body be held on October 3.
A LF delegation today met the State Election Commission S R Upadhyay and submitted a memorandum demanding that the elections be held on October 3.
The delegation rued that though the state government had earlier decided that the elections would be held on October 3, it had not notified the same and the SEC had also not issued any notification for filing of nomination.
The delegation also said the delay in notifying the election process for the civic bodies was creating a political uncertainty in those areas and the as the term of all the local civic bodies in those two municipal corporations had already ended, they were being run unconstitutionally Trinamool Congress nominees.

The SEC, however, today issued said in a release that elections to the Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad and Panchayat by-elections to 341 Gram Panchayats, 72 Panchayat Samities and two Zilla Parishad seats would be held on October 3.