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Rejinagar By-Election: BJP Eyes Women's Votes to Snatch Humayun's Seat; Suvendu Vows Development
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News18•04-10-2026, 06:17
Rejinagar By-Election: BJP Eyes Women's Votes to Snatch Humayun's Seat; Suvendu Vows Development
- •BJP is desperate to snatch the Rejinagar seat, won by Humayun, with Suvendu Adhikari promising to transform the minority-dominated constituency into a model assembly.
- •Humayun has fielded his son Ghulam Nabi Azad; Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool and the Left are also in the fray.
- •Women voters constitute 47% (122,490) of the total 256,267 voters in Rejinagar, making their votes a crucial factor.
- •There is anger among minority women due to Humayun's repeated party changes and resignations from the MLA post since 2011.
- •Women complain about not receiving Awas Yojana housing, old-age pensions, or government ration assistance, demanding hospitals, colleges, and employment.
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Minority women in Rejinagar are expressing anger against the previous Trinamool government due to a lack of housing under Awas Yojana, old-age pensions, and ration assistance during the pandemic, coupled with poor education and health infrastructure and daily difficulties from male migration for work.
Humayun Kabir won both the Rejinagar and Naoda assembly seats on an Am Janata Unnayan Party ticket in 2026, but subsequently chose to resign from the Rejinagar seat, creating the vacancy for the upcoming by-election.
The by-election features a competitive field where Humayun has fielded his son, Ghulam Nabi Azad, to retain the seat, while the BJP has nominated Shakharav Sarkar, and the CPI(M) has fielded Mohammad Saeed.
