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Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee

High-octane campaigning ends for fourth phase polling in Bengal

A total 1,15,81,022 voters including 58,82,514 men, 56,98,218 women and 290 members of the third gender, will decide the fate of 373 candidates in Friday’s polling in constituencies spread over Howrah (Part II), South 24 Parganas (Part III), Hooghly (Part II) in south Bengal and in north Bengal’s Alipurduar and Coochbehar.

Twists and turns

Trinamool Congress MP and the chief minister’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, whose rapid promotion and growing clout in the party is thought to have been one cause for Adhikari’s rebellion, is reported to have had a sit-down with the former state transport minister and south Bengal strongman in Kolkata on Tuesday.