West Bengal Assembly polls | Two BJP candidates decline nomination
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Former Chief Economic Advisor Ashok Lahiri changed in Alipurduar.
In a serious to embarrassment to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), two candidates introduced by the get together on Thursday for the Assembly polls from Kolkata have refused to contest on the get together’s ticket.
Shikha Mitra Chowdhury, spouse of the late West Bengal Pradesh Congress president Somendranath Mitra was named by the get together for the Chowringhee seat. She, nonetheless, stated she was not consulted earlier than the get together made the announcement. “I am not contesting on a BJP ticket anyway. I come from a Congress culture and I cannot join the BJP,” she stated.
Another BJP candidate chosen for the Kashipur-Belgachia constituency, Tarun Saha, stated he had not joined the BJP and had not despatched any request for candidature. Mr. Saha is the husband of the native TMC MLA Mala Saha.
In one other growth, the BJP modified its candidate for the Alipurduar seat, eminent economist and former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India Ashok Lahiri, with the get together’s basic secretary in Alipurduar district, Suman Kanjilal.
There had been experiences of BJP workplaces being attacked in sure elements of the State and get together supporters popping out airing their grievances publicly towards the newly introduced candidates. Protests had been reported in Durgapur, Malda and North 24 Parganas. There had been comparable protests when the get together introduced candidates for third and fourth phases.
Prominent leaders in record
During the day BJP introduced 156 candidates for West Bengal. They included distinguished get together leaders like Mukul Roy, Rahul Sinha and Shamik Bhattacharya.
The get together was cautious to incorporate each outdated and comparatively new faces. Interestingly, the record of 148 candidates for the fifth to eighth part and 9 candidates (together with one substitute) for the fourth part doesn’t embody the identify of West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh.
BJP vice-president Mukul Roy will contest from Krishnanagar Uttar Assembly seat in Nadia, Rahul Sinha from Habra in North 24 Parganas and Shamik Bhattacharya from the Rajarhat Goplapur seat. Ranaghat Lok Sabha MP Jagannath Sarkar will contest from the Santipur seat in Nadia and former Trinamool Congress legislators Sabyasachi Dutta and Jitendra Tewari will contest from will contest from Bidhannagar and Pandaveshwar seats.
The BJP record consists of actors Parno Mitra, who will probably be contesting from Baranagar within the northern fringe of the town, and Rudraneel Ghosh from the Bhawanipur Assembly seat. Gobardhan Das, professor of Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, will contest from Purbosthali Uttar in Bardhaman district. Director of Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, Anirban Ganguly, will contest from Bolpur and footballer Kalyan Choubey will contest from Manicktala.
Sitting MLA Pawan Singh, son of BJP MP Arjun Singh, will contest from Bhatpara. Mukul Roy’s son and sitting MLA of Bijpur, Subhranshu Roy, will contest from the identical seat. Among the opposite key candidates are Agnimitra Paul from Asansol Dakshin and actor Srabanti Chattopadhyay from Behala West. Baishali Dalmiya, who was sitting TMC MLA from Bally earlier than he joined the BJP, has been given ticket from the identical seat.
Minority candidates
Among the minority candidates nominated by the get together are State vice-president Majufa Khatun from Sagardighi Assembly seat, Masuhara Khatun from Raninagar, Mohd Mehbud Alam from Bhagabangola and Golam Modrasha from Raghunathganj. Most of those seats are in Murshidabad district.
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