Explained: Amid election rallies, Covid rises 420% in Bengal

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday present a clarification over the speculations about the remaining polling phases of the West Bengal assembly election.

Mass gatherings at political rallies in the eight-phase West Bengal assembly election are stocking the fears of a rapid outbreak while the country deals with the second and more severe wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. CM Mamata Banerjee told ABP News that her party TMC will ask the poll body to conduct voting for the remaining phases in one go.