CPI(M) MLA angry, resigns | Kolkata - Hindustan Times
close_game
close_game

CPI(M) MLA angry, resigns

Hindustan Times | BySukumar Debnath, Kolkata
Apr 04, 2011 03:36 PM IST

Discontent over ticket allocation in the CPI(M) in West Bengal is now visible from an MLA's decision to leave the party. Sukumar Debnath reports.

Discontent over ticket allocation in the CPI(M) in West Bengal is now visible from an MLA's decision to leave the party.

HT Image
HT Image

Bishnupur East (South 24 Parganas district, south of Kolkata) MLA Ananda Kumar Biswas is unhappy with the party because of its decision to field an “outsider” in his constituency for the 2011 polls.

Hindustan Times - your fastest source for breaking news! Read now.

Biswas, a district committee member and zonal committee secretary, is waiting for the party’s decision before he gives up the legislator’s post as well.

“It is for the party to decide and I have nothing more to comment at this moment,” said Biswas when contacted by HT.

An advocate by training, Biswas won from the constituency in 1996 and 2006. He is known to have a bitter relationship with land reforms minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah.

The CPI(M) has nominated Sudhin Sinha, a resident of a place about 50 km from the constituency, a reserved one.

Biswas has refused to accept the party’s decision, which he says amounts to the CPI(M) acknowledging that there is not one suitable candidate there. Biswas sent his letter of resignation to the party in the last week of March, pointing at its allegedly whimsical ways of functioning in the district.

In West Bengal, the CPI(M) has denied tickets to 79 of its sitting MLAs, including six ministers.

In South 24 Parganas district, there are eight dumped MLAs.

SHARE THIS ARTICLE ON
Share this article
SHARE
Story Saved
Live Score
OPEN APP
Saved Articles
Following
My Reads
Sign out
New Delhi 0C
Friday, March 29, 2024
Start 14 Days Free Trial Subscribe Now
Follow Us On