West Bengal bye-election: 30.6% voter turnout recorded in Kaliganj until 11am

Jun 19, 2025 01:46 PM IST The bye-election was necessitated because of the sudden demise of Trinamool Congress MLA Nasiruddin Ahmed in February this yr. Polling officers recorded a voter turnout of 30.6% until 11 am within the Kaliganj meeting seat bye-election as the method went on easily within the first half of the day in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Thursday. A voter earlier than casting her poll at a polling sales space throughout the Kaliganj bye-election in West Bengal’s Nadia district. (West Bengal CEO) The bye-election was necessitated because of the sudden demise of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Nasiruddin Ahmed in February this yr. Counting of votes will probably be held on June 23. “Voting was going on peacefully with no reports of any untoward incidents,” stated a ballot panel official in West Bengal. While the ruling TMC has fielded Alifa Ahmed, daughter of the previous MLA and an IT engineer by career, the BJP has fielded Ashis Ghosh, a businessman, as its candidate. The Congress, in the meantime, has fielded Kabil Uddin Shaikh with the help of the CPI(M). Kaliganj has a Muslim voter inhabitants of round 54%, together with SCs (14%) and STs (0.42%). It is predominantly rural, with greater than 90% rural and round 9% city inhabitants, as per Census 2011. The TMC had first received the seat in 2011 after it got here to energy ending the 34-year-old Left regime when Nasiruddin Ahmed was elected. In 2016, he misplaced the seat to Congress-CPM alliance candidate Sheikh Hasanuzzaman. However, Hasanuzzaman later joined Trinamool. Nasiruddin reclaimed the Kaliganj seat within the 2021 Assembly polls. The seat fell vacant after his demise. The bye-election is being seen as a litmus take a look at for each the ruling TMC and its arch rival the BJP forward of the 2026 meeting elections.