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Swapan Dasgupta âRenominationâ to RS After Resignation âConstitutionally Wrongâ, âUnprecedentedâ
Dasgupta had contested on a BJP ticket from the Tarakeswar seat in the assembly election and lost. He will now return to serve the rest of his original term in the upper house despite having resigned his seat.
Swapan Dasgupta with Narendra Modi. Photo: Facebook/Swapan Dasgupta
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New Delhi: Former journalist Swapan Dasgupta, who had resigned from Rajya Sabha and unsuccessfully contested the recent West Bengal assembly elections on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket, has been renominated to the upper house of parliament by the government.
In March, a day after a political row over him contesting as a BJP candidate while also holding the post of an âindependentâ Rajya Sabha MP emerged, Dasgupta resigned from the upper house. The timing of his resignation had led to controversy.
India News: NEW DELHI: Former journalist Swapan Dasgupta, who had resigned from Rajya Sabha and unsuccessfully contested the recent West Bengal assembly elections.
Noted lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani was also nominated to Rajya Sabha by the cental government.
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NEW DELHI: Former journalist Swapan Dasgupta, who had resigned from Rajya Sabha and unsuccessfully contested the recent West Bengal assembly elections on a BJP ticket, has been renominated to the Upper House of Parliament by the government.
Noted lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani was also nominated to Rajya Sabha by the cental government. In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause (a) of clause (1) of article 80 of the Constitution of India, read with clause (3) of that article, the President is pleased to renominate Shri Swapan Dasgupta to the Council of States to fill the seat which has fallen vacant due to his resignation for his reminder term viz - 24-04-2022, according to a Home Ministry notification.