Kolkata, Sep 6 (PTI) West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah met in New Delhi on Monday evening.

The visit comes in the backdrop of the Election Commission announcing by-elections to the Bhabanipur assembly constituency in south Kolkata, from where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be contesting.

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The bypoll will be held on September 30 along with elections in two seats in Murshidabad district - Samserganj and Jangipur - where polling could not take place during the eight-phase assembly elections earlier this year.

"West Bengal Governor Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar called on Union Home Minister Shri? @AmitShah at his residence in New Delhi," the governor's official Twitter handle posted.

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Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee is also in the national capital, where he was questioned for about nine hours by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal pilferage scam, officials said.

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