Bengal Polls 2021
Bengal: Two BJP MLAs Nisith Pramanik, Jagannath Sarkar resign to continue as Lok Sabha MPs
Kolkata/IBNS: Two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA-elects, Nisith Pramanik and Jagannath Sarkar, resigned on Wednesday in order to continue as Lok Sabha MPs, following the order of the party.
Pramanik and Sarkar were elected to the West Bengal assembly from Dinhata and Shantipur respectively. Both did not take oath as MLAs last week.
Both on Wednesday submitted their resignations to assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee.
While Pramanik is a sitting MP from Cooch Behar, Sarkar was elected to the Lok Sabha from Ranaghat.
Pramanik and Sarkar are the two sitting parliamentarians among several whom the BJP had fielded in the recently concluded assembly elections.
In the state polls, where the BJP could win only 77 seats, Sarkar won from Shantipur by 15,878 votes while Pramanik won from Dinhata by only 57 votes.
With the resignations, the BJP's tally in the assembly have further gone down to 75 while the TMC has 213 seats in its kitty.
Apart from elections in the two seats, voting is also due in Jangipur and Shamshergunj, where two candidates had died, and in Khardah where TMC's winning candidate Kajol Sinha passed away.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was defeated in Nandigram, and Finance Minister Amit Mitra, who did not contest the polls, will also have to get elected to the assembly within six months.
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