TMC candidate Kajal Sinha, who succumbed to COVID-19 last week, is leading from Khardaha Assembly seat in West Bengal by over 29,000 votes, as per Election Commission data. BJP's Silbhadra Datta and Debajyoti Das of CPI(M) are the key candidates against him. After Sinha's death, his wife filed a complaint against EC for allegedly not ensuring the safety of candidates.