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.