The district election workplace on Friday cancelled the candidature of former IPS officer Debasish Dhar, who was fielded by the BJP for West Bengal’s Birbhum Lok Sabha constituency, citing technical grounds. In his place, the BJP nominated senior get together chief Debtanu Bhattacharya, who filed his papers on Thursday.
Dhar expressed his intentions to problem the choice within the Calcutta Excessive Court docket. “On account of some technical causes, my candidature has been cancelled. I’ll knock on the doorways of the Calcutta Excessive Court docket after consulting my get together leaders. I believe the explanations cited are baseless”, he advised reporters.
Bhattacharya, a former pracharak and cluster in-charge of Rarh area within the state, vowed to help the get together’s technique in opposition to the TMC. “I’ll do no matter my get together asks me to do. All of us are united and dealing collectively to combat the conspiracies of the Trinamool. It’s a strategic transfer to foil their gameplan”, Bhattacharya mentioned.
Dhar had been placed on obligatory ready after the Sitalkuchi firing in Cooch Behar district wherein 5 individuals have been killed within the 2021 meeting polls.
The TMC has fielded sitting MP and actor Satabdi Roy from the Birbhum Lok Sabha seat.
The election in Birbhum is scheduled for Might 13, with TMC’s Satabdi Roy as the primary rival in opposition to the BJP.