Bengal Assembly bypolls: TMC set to field fresh faces, give star candidates a miss

A elder TMC person said, “Already, I-PAC (Indian Political Action Committee) collected names of enactment leaders acceptable to voters. Accordingly, they person suggested 3 names from each constituency and submitted the database to our enactment supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Incidentally, Abhishek Banerjee, our party’s fig 2 leader, and I-PAC caput Pratik Jain are present successful the US for idiosyncratic reasons. We are not definite whether the names volition beryllium announced earlier oregon aft their return. But the database that was submitted to the enactment supremo was shown to them arsenic well.”

In the Naihati Assembly seat, enactment municipality president Sanat De is learnt to beryllium the archetypal choice. However, authorities Trinamool Chhatra Parishad president Trinankur Bhattacharya’s sanction has besides been doing the rounds. The spot fell vacant aft sitting TMC MLA Partha Bhowmik won the Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency defeating BJP campaigner Arjun Singh.

Similarly, the enactment organisation, it has been learnt, wants its West Midnapore president Sujay Hazra to contention the Medinipur bypoll. “If Hazra tin beryllium the MLA and the territory enactment president astatine the aforesaid time, his enactment volition beryllium firmly established successful the district. So, the enactment enactment is considering his sanction for this seat,” said different elder TMC leader.

In the Taldangra seat, the TMC is reportedly considering nominating Bankura zilla parishad sabhadhipati Anasua Roy. The spot fell vacant aft sitting MLA and TMC territory president Aroop Chakraborty got elected to the Lok Sabha from the Bankura constituency. Sources said Chakraborty suggested 2 to 3 names but the enactment has not agreed to them.

In Haroa, which fell vacant aft Haji Nurul Islam became an MP, the enactment whitethorn take Haji Islam’s lad Rabiul Islam arsenic the candidate. Incidentally, Haji Islam passed distant past month.

Sources besides confirmed that the TMC was looking to tract caller faces successful the Sitai and Madarihat constituencies of North Bengal.

Bypolls volition beryllium held successful six Bengal constituencies — Sitai (SC), Madarihat (ST), Naihati, Haroa, Medinipur, and Taldangra — connected November 13 and the counting of votes volition instrumentality spot connected November 23.