On Thursday, the ruling party in West Bengal, TMC demanded the removal of Sudeep Jain, the deputy election commissioner in-charge of the state, accusing him of being biased against it and breaking norms of the federal structure. Apart from this, the Shiv Sena has announced that it will not contest the upcoming West Bengal polls and extended its support to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Shiv Sena MP in RS, Sanjay Raut, who is also the executive editor of the Marathi Newspaper Saamna, described the Bengal polls as the fight between the Money, Media & Muscle of BJP vs Mamata; an all vs Didi battle.
The BJP is in the process to finalize the list of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal and Assam. The party is preparing to draw up a list of 60 candidates for the first two phases of the Assembly polls starting March 27, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh has said. The party has held another round of its election committee meeting at its party office in Hastings, Kolkata before central and state leaders left for Delhi.
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For the elections in the southern states, the saffron party has announced E Sreedharan, popularly known as the ‘Metro Man’, as the party’s chief minister candidate for the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections. Sreedharan, 88, joined the BJP last week. BJP state president K Surendran, currently on a state-wide political tour dubbed as Vijay Yatra, announced the decision. “The party will soon release a list of other candidates as well,” he said.
