Mamata Banerjee set to contest from Bhabanipur, sitting TMC MLA Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay resigns

Mamata Banerjee had misplaced Nandigram by 1956 votes.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who contested meeting election in opposition to Suvendu Adhikari from Nandigram and misplaced, is returning to her conventional seat Bhabanipur or Bhowanipore. Since Banerjee was not elected to the legislative meeting, she must contest by-poll or both get elected by way of the Legislative Council which her cupboard is working to arrange. Mamata Banerjee must get re-elected to the meeting inside six months to carry on to the chief minister’s chair.

West Bengal minister and veteran TMC chief Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay has contested from the Bhabanipur meeting seat and gained defeating BJP’s Rudranil Ghosh. Chattopadhyay has at this time resigned from the seat, vacating it for Banerjee.

Speaking about his resignation, he stated that it was a call of the celebration. “CM Mamata Banerjee had gained twice from Bhawanipore. All celebration leaders mentioned and after I heard that she wished to contest from right here, I assumed I ought to vacate my seat. There’s no strain on me. No person else dares to run a authorities. I spoke to her and informed her that it was her seat and I used to be simply defending it,” stated Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay.

Chattopadhyay has been given agriculture ministry in Mamata Banerjee’s cupboard. The septuagenarian politician is more likely to contest from Khardah seat, the place a by-poll has been necessitated following the demise of TMC’s Kajal Sinha.

Mamata Banerjee had misplaced Nandigram by 1956 votes. Former TMC chief Suvendu Adhikari, who joined the BJP final 12 months, had emerged as an enormous slayer by handing Banerjee the second defeat of her political profession.

Regardless of a high-octane marketing campaign, the BJP may solely win 77 seats whereas Banerjee’s TMC went on to win 213 seats securing a thumping majority. The West Bengal meeting has 294 seats of which 292 went to the polls. Now the election fee should maintain by-polls in Shamsherganj, Jangipur and Khardaha meeting constituencies.