TMC candidates Shatrughan Sinha, Babul Supriyo file nominations for by-polls in Bengal

By PTI

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress candidates Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo on Monday filed their nominations for by-polls to a Lok Sabha and an meeting seat to be held on April 12 in West Bengal.

Sinha has been fielded for by-election to the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency, whereas Supriyo was nominated for the Ballygunge Assembly seat.

Speaking to reporters after submitting his nomination at Alipore Survey Building, Supriyo stated, “I am thankful to ‘Didi’ (TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee) for giving me this opportunity to contest from the presitigious Ballygunge constituency. I am really honoured and accept the challenge.”

The bypoll to Asansol was necessitated as Supriyo resigned because the BJP MP after becoming a member of the TMC in September final yr. The Ballygunge Assembly seat goes for polls as incumbent MLA and state minister Subrata Mukherjee died in November 2021.

Sinha, a former BJP chief, filed his nomination on the workplace of the district Justice of the Peace of Paschim Bardhaman.

The actor-turned-politician had Sunday taken a jibe on the BJP for labelling him as an outsider, questioning what the saffron social gathering makes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi contesting from Varanasi. “If for national figures like the PM, contesting the Lok Sabha polls from anywhere is accepted, then the same holds true for me as well,” he had stated.

By-polls to the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency and the Ballygunje meeting seat will probably be held on April 12, and votes will probably be counted on April 16.