Didi shuns ‘safe seat’ to take on Adhikari

Shubhadeep Choudhury

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Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 23

Overcoming the temptation to contest from a ‘safe seat’, CM Mamata Banerjee didn’t file her nomination from Tollygunge, the deadline for which ended on Tuesday.

BJP final list out, Mithun not in fray

• The BJP has released its final list of 13 candidates for the WB Assembly polls
• The list comprises prominent faces, but veteran actor Mithun Chakarborty, who joined the BJP earlier this month, finds no mention

She is now all set for a contest against her former ally Suvendu Adhikari from Nandigram. Aroop Biswas, sitting MLA, was once again named in the TMC list as party candidate from Tollygunge, but he deliberately kept a low profile so that there was no confusion in case “Didi” decided to contest from the seat.

Meanwhile, the BJP today released its final list of 13 candidates for the WB polls. The list comprises prominent faces, but veteran actor Mithun Chakarborty, who joined the BJP earlier this month, finds no mention.

The BJP sprang up a surprise by naming Lt Gen Subrata Saha (retd), a member of the National Security Advisory Board and former commander of the Kashmir Corps, as its candidate from Rashbehari.

Ashok Lahiri, economic adviser to then Vajpayee as well as Manmohan Singh governments, got ticket from Balurghat. He was earlier allotted Alipurduar, but his candidature was changed to Balurghat owing to some technical reason. While Supriyo Thakur, younger brother of sitting BJP MP Shantanu Thakur, will contest from Gaighata, Debabrata Mazhi will fight from Chowrangee.