North 24 Parganas, April 29 -- Madhuparna Thakur, a representative of the Matua Thakur family and the Trinamool candidate for the Bagda constituency, cast her vote at a polling booth in Thakurnagar in North 24 Parganas as the polling for the second phase of the West Bengal elections is underway.

Madhuparna Thakur is contesting against her sister-in-law and Union Minister Shantanu Thakur's wife, Soma Thakur. The TMC leader said that her personal relationship did not come in the way of the elections.

"The voting is underway peacefully here (in Thakurnagar). In Bagda, the people are very simple and educated. I was a councillor from there. The people of Bagda consider me their daughter. My relationship with my sister-in-law (who is contesti...