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The central BJP leadership has asked two party MPs who were elected as MLAs to quit the Assembly and retain the membership of the Lok Sabha.
The decision with regard to Ranaghat MP Jagannath Sarkar and Cooch Behar MP Nisith Pramanik betrayed the BJP’s jitters about bypolls in the two Lok Sabha seats in the aftermath of the Trinamul Congress’s landslide victory in the Assembly elections.
The BJP had fielded four Lok Sabha members in the Assembly polls. But Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee and Asansol MP and Union minister Babul Supriyo were defeated. Swapan Dasgupta had resigned as the nominated member of the Rajya Sabha and contested the Assembly elections as a BJP candidate. He also lost.
Krishna Kirtania, a resident of North 24-Parganas’ Gaighata, is unsure about whom to vote.
A member of the Matua community, Krishna had voted the BJP like most others in his community in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Early on Sunday, Krishna visited Thakurbari, the headquarters of the Matua sect in North 24-Parganas’ Thakurnagar, in search of clarity.
He spoke through the day with both factions of the Thakur family one owing allegiance to Trinamul and the other to the BJP. The members of the family are direct descendants of Harichand Thakur, the founder of the Matua sect. The area votes on April 22.
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