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TMC applicants Shatrughan Sinha, Babul Supriyo record nominations for by-polls in Bengal

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KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress applicants Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo on Monday filed their nominations for by-polls to a Lok Sabha and an meeting seat to be hung on April 12 in West Bengal.

Sinha has been fielded for by-election to the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency, whilst Supriyo was once nominated for the Ballygunge Meeting seat.

Talking to newshounds after submitting his nomination at Alipore Survey Construction, Supriyo stated, “I’m grateful to ‘Didi’ (TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee) for giving me this chance to contest from the presitigious Ballygunge constituency. I’m actually honoured and settle for the problem.”

The bypoll to Asansol was once necessitated as Supriyo resigned because the BJP MP after becoming a member of the TMC in September ultimate yr. The Ballygunge Meeting seat goes for polls as incumbent MLA and state minister Subrata Mukherjee died in November 2021.

Sinha, a former BJP chief, filed his nomination on the administrative center of the district Justice of the Peace of Paschim Bardhaman.

The actor-turned-politician had Sunday taken a jibe on the BJP for labelling him as an intruder, questioning what the saffron celebration makes of Top Minister Narendra Modi contesting from Varanasi. “If for nationwide figures just like the PM, contesting the Lok Sabha polls from any place is authorized, then the similar holds true for me as smartly,” he had stated.

Through-polls to the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency and the Ballygunje meeting seat can be hung on April 12, and votes can be counted on April 16.