West Bengal bypolls: BJP fields Sajal Ghosh from Baranagar, Bhaskar Sarkar from Bhagawangola
While the Bhagawangola seat fell vacant after the death of Trinamool Congress MLA Idris Ali on February 16, former TMC leader Tapas Roy’s resignation necessitated the bypoll to the Baranagar seat.
Sajal Ghosh (left) has been fielded from Baranagar, while Bhaskar Sarkar (right) will be contesting from Bhagawangola. (Express photos) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday fielded one of its popular faces in West Bengal, Sajal Ghosh, from the Baranagar Assembly constituency which will see a bypoll on June 1. In the Bhagawangola Assembly seat, which will see polling on May 7, the party has fielded local leader of Murshidabad district Bhaskar Sarkar.
While the Bhagawangola seat fell vacant after the death of Trinamool Congress MLA Idris Ali on February 16, former TMC leader Tapas Roy’s resignation necessitated the bypoll to the Baranagar seat. Roy joined the BJP and the saffron party fielded him from the Kolkata-Uttar Lok Sabha constituency.
Both Roy and Ghosh were once Congress leaders and had jumped over to the TMC at different times. Ghosh joined the BJP before Roy in 2021 and was a councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).
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