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Four MPs, actors, defectors, and an economist, BJP raises stakes in Bengal game
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Last Updated: Mar 15, 2021, 12:00 AM IST
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In the ST-dominated Alipurduar constituency which has many tea estates, Lahiri is pitted against TMC’s sitting MLA Sourav Chakraborty who polled over 44% of votes in 2016, and was recently in a controversy for taking Covid-19 vaccine despite not being a frontline worker.
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A senior BJP leader, on condition of anonymity, told ET that Lahiri and many other MPs are being nominated to assure the people of a strong government if the party wins.
The BJP on Sunday announced that it will field former chief economic adviser to the central government and member of the 15th Finance Commission, Ashok Lahiri, from the Alipurduar seat, and minister of state for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Babul Supriyo from Tollygunge against TMC minister Arup Biswas, and former journalist Swapan Dasgupta from Tarakeshwar assembly constituency.