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Mamata to file nomination for Bhabanipur bypoll today, BJP mulls candidate

Unlike in rural Bengal, BJP does not have a prominent face in Kolkata
Mamata to file nomination for Bhabanipur bypoll today, BJP mulls candidate
Mamata to file nomination for Bhabanipur bypoll today, BJP mulls candidate

ITDC INDIA EPRESS/ITDC NEWS R Hectic parleys are on in Delhi to select the BJP candidate to face West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the Assembly byelection in Bhabanipur. Mamata Banerjee will be filing her nomination for the Bhabanipur bypoll on Friday.

The list of names sent to Delhi by the state BJP includes Anirban Ganguly, Dinesh Trivedi, Pratap Banerjee, Priyanka Tibrewal, Sajal Ghosh and Biswajit Sarkar.

It is a testing time for the BJP as unlike in rural Bengal, BJP does not have a prominent face in Kolkata. Therefore, the party is partly divided over who should take on Mamata.

Ganguly, honorary director of the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, is known to be a skilled orator. And he is part of the party's intellectual cell.

Trivedi and Tibrewal are being thought of as the constituency has almost 35 per cent non-Bengali population. Many slum-dwellers in Bhabanipur are from Bihar.

Tibrewal is one of the lawyers who fought for a CBI probe on post-poll violence in West Bengal. She is a good orator as well. But she lost the last election in Entally Assembly seat of Kolkata. But the BJP feels that Tibrewal's candidature could remind the people about "horrific" post-poll retributive violence.

But some leaders felt that putting a victim as a candidate itself would serve that purpose. A section of leaders are vouching for Biswajit Sarkar, brother of Kolkata's slain youth wing leader, Abhijit Sarkar. Abhijit was allegedly beaten to death by TMC workers in the intervening night of May 2 and May 3. His pet dogs were killed before he was.

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