The Congress Friday March 18,2016 fielded former lawmaker Deepa Dasmunsi against Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee at her Bhawanipore Assembly seat which the
Trinamool chief had won in 2011 by over 50,000 votes.
Deepa Dasmunsi is the wife of Congress leader Priya Ranjan Das Munshi who was elected to Lok Sabha from the Kolkata South seat in 1971 in which Bhawanipore is an Assembly segment.
Bhawanipore, which polls in the 5th phase on April 30, will see a high-profile fight. The BJP has fielded Netaji Subha Chandra Bose's grand-nephew Chandra Bose against Mamata Banerjee
Deepa Dasmunsi was named along with 42 other candidates for West Bengal by the Congress high command. Earlier this week, a state Congress leader, Prof Om Prakash Mishra, had offered to fight Mamata Banerjee.
The state party chief did not dismiss his offer and Prof Misha had even started campaigning. But Congress president Sonia Gandhi wanted Deepa Dasmunsi for the job.
An MP from Raiganj in north Bengal till 2014 when she lost to CPM's Mohammed Salim, Deepa Dasmunshi said, "This is a war. My opponent is very strong and intelligent. But the condition of West Bengal under her has become so bad, I will do my best to win this seat."
Deepa Dasmunshi has been a consistent Mamata Banerjee baiter and believed to be among those state Congress leaders who strongly opposed any alliance with the Trinamool in the Assembly polls.
Deepa Dasmunsi is the wife of Congress leader Priya Ranjan Das Munshi who was elected to Lok Sabha from the Kolkata South seat in 1971 in which Bhawanipore is an Assembly segment.
Bhawanipore, which polls in the 5th phase on April 30, will see a high-profile fight. The BJP has fielded Netaji Subha Chandra Bose's grand-nephew Chandra Bose against Mamata Banerjee
Deepa Dasmunsi was named along with 42 other candidates for West Bengal by the Congress high command. Earlier this week, a state Congress leader, Prof Om Prakash Mishra, had offered to fight Mamata Banerjee.
The state party chief did not dismiss his offer and Prof Misha had even started campaigning. But Congress president Sonia Gandhi wanted Deepa Dasmunsi for the job.
An MP from Raiganj in north Bengal till 2014 when she lost to CPM's Mohammed Salim, Deepa Dasmunshi said, "This is a war. My opponent is very strong and intelligent. But the condition of West Bengal under her has become so bad, I will do my best to win this seat."
Deepa Dasmunshi has been a consistent Mamata Banerjee baiter and believed to be among those state Congress leaders who strongly opposed any alliance with the Trinamool in the Assembly polls.
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