Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson and West Bengal CM Mamata
Banerjee on Sunday March 08,2020 named four former Lok Sabha members as the party’s
candidates for elections to five Rajya Sabha seats from the state on
March 26,2020
Of the nominees, former Union railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, theatre personality Arpita Ghosh, and former Congress MP Mausam Noor contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections but lost. The fourth, Subrata Bakshi, is the party’s state unit president and a key back-room leader.
Announcing the decision on Twitter on Sunday, Banerjee wrote: “I am glad to announce that @AITCofficial will be nominating Arpita Ghosh, Mausam Noor, Dinesh Trivedi & Subrata Bakshi to the Rajya Sabha. As a part of my constant endeavour towards woman empowerment, I am proud that half of our nominations are women #InternationalWomensDay.”
The seats fall vacant on April 2 with the end of the tenures of painter Jogen Chowdhury, former bureaucrat-turned-minister Manish Gupta, industrialist KD Singh, newspaper editor Ahmed Hassan Imran (they all represented the TMC), and expelled Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Ritabrata Banerjee.
The TMC has 229 MLAs in the 294-member West Bengal assembly, followed by the Left and the Congress with 26 each. The BJP has 13 members.
Based on the strength on the floor of the Assembly, the TMC’s victory is certain in four seats. The fifth seat could go to the Left and Congress if they support a single candidate.
Whether TMC fields a candidate in the fifth seat will be decided later, party leaders said.
BJP, which does not have enough strength on the floor of the assembly to get its own candidate elected to Rajya Sabha has emerged as TMC’s strongest challenger in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, mocked at the TMC’s choice of candidates.
“She nominated three who lost the Lok Sabha elections. She is rewarding those who have been rejected by the people. It’s not difficult to imagine TMC’s doomed future,” BJP state unit president Dilip Ghosh said. The TMC has 13 members in the 245-seat Upper House of Parliament.
The next round of Rajya Sabha polls to 55 seats across India are on March 26, and March 13 is the last date of filing nominations.TMC
Of the nominees, former Union railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, theatre personality Arpita Ghosh, and former Congress MP Mausam Noor contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections but lost. The fourth, Subrata Bakshi, is the party’s state unit president and a key back-room leader.
Announcing the decision on Twitter on Sunday, Banerjee wrote: “I am glad to announce that @AITCofficial will be nominating Arpita Ghosh, Mausam Noor, Dinesh Trivedi & Subrata Bakshi to the Rajya Sabha. As a part of my constant endeavour towards woman empowerment, I am proud that half of our nominations are women #InternationalWomensDay.”
The seats fall vacant on April 2 with the end of the tenures of painter Jogen Chowdhury, former bureaucrat-turned-minister Manish Gupta, industrialist KD Singh, newspaper editor Ahmed Hassan Imran (they all represented the TMC), and expelled Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Ritabrata Banerjee.
The TMC has 229 MLAs in the 294-member West Bengal assembly, followed by the Left and the Congress with 26 each. The BJP has 13 members.
Based on the strength on the floor of the Assembly, the TMC’s victory is certain in four seats. The fifth seat could go to the Left and Congress if they support a single candidate.
Whether TMC fields a candidate in the fifth seat will be decided later, party leaders said.
BJP, which does not have enough strength on the floor of the assembly to get its own candidate elected to Rajya Sabha has emerged as TMC’s strongest challenger in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, mocked at the TMC’s choice of candidates.
“She nominated three who lost the Lok Sabha elections. She is rewarding those who have been rejected by the people. It’s not difficult to imagine TMC’s doomed future,” BJP state unit president Dilip Ghosh said. The TMC has 13 members in the 245-seat Upper House of Parliament.
The next round of Rajya Sabha polls to 55 seats across India are on March 26, and March 13 is the last date of filing nominations.TMC
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