After Nandigram, Mamata Banerjee’s Rejinagar candidate to withdraw from bye-poll
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The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress faction’s nominee for the Assembly bye-elections in West Bengal’s Rejinagar said he will withdraw his candidature, NDTV reported on Saturday.
The faction had fielded Rabiul Alam Chowdhury for the October 6 election.
This came a day after Sanchita Pradhan, the faction’s candidate for the bye-poll in Nandigram constituency, also withdrew her nomination. Photographs of her meeting West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari had been shared online.
After this, Mamata Banerjee announced that her faction would support Congress candidate Milan Pradhan in Nandigram to strengthen the Opposition INDIA bloc. It also decided not to contest the Lok Sabha bye-poll in Assam’s Nagaon.
Hours later, the Congress candidate in Nandigram was arrested in an old murder case.
The Mamata Banerjee faction had said at the time that it would contest the Rejinagar bye-election.
The bye-poll in Rejinagar was necessitated after Aam Janata Unnayan Party chief Humayun Kabir vacated the seat.
Kabir had won the Assembly elections in May from Rejinagar and Naoda. He decided to hold on to the Naoda constituency in line with the Representation of People Act, which allows a candidate who has won two seats to retain only one.
While the rival TMC faction has nominated Sheikh Saifuddin for the bye-poll, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded Shankharav Sarkar. The Communist Party...