Kolkata: With the Left Front trying to make a desperate bid to win as many seats in Malda as possible, the district would be the focus of attention in the fifth and last phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal.
306 candidates are in the fray for the 49 seats spread over Malda, Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, North and South Dinajpur and Darjeeling.
For the Congress, the May 8 election would be a big challenge as the party would face the poll without ABA Ghani Khan Chowdhury, the party's undisputed leader and the architect of modern Malda.
That the CPI-M-led Front was eyeing many seats in Malda was evident from the campaign of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who spent two days in the district urging the people to support the LF to complete Ghani Khan's 'unfinished task'.
''Ghani Khan's death has created a void, but it cannot be filled up by those who are in Congress now. Left Front will work for the development of Malda and North Bengal as a whole,'' the Chief Minister said during campaigning.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi during her second phase of campaign in the state had touched Malda and put the Left Front in the dock for "failing to usher in development in the state during its 29-year rule".
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