Bengal BJP sniffs a chance in Muslim-majority Rejinagar bypoll
India, Sept. 27 -- In the dusty lanes of Rejinagar, a Murshidabad Assembly segment where Muslims make up more than two-thirds of the electorate, the Bharatiya Janata Party is doing something it rarely gets to do in Bengal's minority belt: hoping arithmetic, not just organisation, will carry it across the line on October 6. The bypoll-necessitated after Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) chief Humayun Kabir, who had simultaneously won both Rejinagar and Naoda in this year's Assembly election, chose to retain Naoda-has drawn an unusually crowded field. In that contest, held earlier this year, Kabir had defeated the BJP's Bapan Ghosh by a margin of 58,876 votes, while the united Trinamool candidate trailed in third place with just 41,718 votes-...
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