Kolkata: Once a top-runner in Bharatiya Janata Party’s chief ministerial candidate race, state chief Dilip Ghosh introduced that he won’t be contesting the upcoming polls. The announcement comes as a noteworthy transfer by the saffron celebration which is touted to be one of many prime rivals of ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Bengal.
While completely talking to ABP News, Ghosh stated: “I am not contesting the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections.”
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Speculations had been rife that Ghosh together with BJP’s nationwide vice-president Mukul Roy will contest Bengal polls. However, there was no official annoucement by the BJP on the difficulty.
It can be being anticipated that BJP would possibly launch its partial listing of candidates for Bengal Assembly Elections on Thursday.Â
Meanwhile, the BJP’s senior management is reportedly in a soup over collection of candidates in West Bengal as a number of celebration leaders, staff staged protests exterior the BJP state headquarters on Tuesday demanding modifications within the candidate listing declared by the celebration’s Central Election Committee (CEC).
However, the celebration dubbed the incident of protests exterior the celebration workplace as “some kind of conspiracy” by the opposition.
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With an goal to topple the Mamata Banerjee-led authorities in Bengal, the BJP has additionally fielded each its Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs comparable to Locket Chatterjee, Babul Supriyo and Swapan Dasgupta from varied meeting seats within the poll-bound state.
Earlier within the day, TMC unveiled a “development-oriented” election manifesto for the upcoming meeting polls in West Bengal, promising an earnings scheme for all households, a scholar bank card and structure of a job pressure to look at the inclusion of a number of communities below the OBC class.
(With inputs from Kuntal Chakraborty)
