Wheelchair-bound Mamata casts vote in West Bengal assembly polls

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today cast her vote at a polling booth in south Kolkata's Bhabanipur assembly constituency.

 

A resident of Harish Chatterjee Street of the locality, Mamata exercised her franchise at a polling booth in Mitra Institution school around 3:50pm local time, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

 

Sitting in a wheelchair, she briefly paused before photojournalists while coming out of the booth before boarding her car. She also displayed a victory sign towards the cameras.

 

Mamata was a two-term legislator from Bhabanipur but this time she is contesting the assembly elections in Nandigram in the Purba Medinipur district, taking on BJP's Suvendu Adhikari.

 

Bhabanipur is witnessing a straight fight between Trinamool Congress' veteran leader Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay and Bharatiya Janata Party's celebrity candidate Rudranil Ghosh. The Left-led Sanjukta Morcha has fielded Congress's Md Shadab Khan.

 

The polling in Bhabanipur took place in the seventh phase of the assembly elections in West Bengal today.

 

Polling to the 294-member West Bengal assembly is being held in eight phases beginning on March 27. The votes will be counted on May 2.