In a letter to the West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, the South Burdwan Trinamool Congress MLA, Ravi Ranjan Chattopadhyay said that he did not want to contest the West Bengal election this year because of ill health.

The profile of Ravi Ranjan Chattopadhyay on the website myneta.info highlights that he is an educationist turned politician. He completed his MA from the University of Burdwan in the year 1963 and completed his Doctorate from the same university in the year 1968. He is one of the MLAs with a clean image in the TMC, as his profile shows that he has zero criminal cases against him.

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After getting elected in the Burdwan South seat in the 2011 assembly election which overthrew the 34-year-old Left front rule, he was re-elected again in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.

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In the heated up battleground for the West Bengal state election, where 40 odd TMC leaders have jumped the boat and switched to BJP, the letter from Ravi Ranjan Chattopadhyay has put the TMC high command into new worry. Though there is no confirmed report of his eagerness to switch party, the political environment in Bengal is now filled with speculation of the same.