TMC releases list of candidates for KMC elections, removes 39 sitting councilors
Highlight
- TMC dropped 39 existing councilors
- In the last KMC elections in 2015, the ruling party in West Bengal had won 126 wards.
- The party has fielded 64 women candidates, and 23 are from the minority community.
The TMC on Friday announced the names of candidates for the 144 ward Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections, in which 39 sitting councilors were dropped.
In the last KMC elections in 2015, the ruling party in West Bengal had won 126 wards.
TMC Lok Sabha party leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay said, “The party has decided not to re-nominate 39 sitting councillors. We will use them for any other organizational work.”
He said the party has fielded 64 women candidates and 23 are from the minority community.
Rajya Sabha MP Shantanu Sen, who was also a councilor on the outgoing KMC board, has not been re-nominated this time.
TMC general secretary Partha Chatterjee said that six sitting MLAs, including the chairman of the KMC’s board of administrators, Firhad Hakim, have been nominated.
The elections to the KMC, along with 112 other municipalities and municipal corporations, were to be held in April-May 2020. But the elections were postponed due to the raging COVID pandemic. These civic bodies are now run by a state-appointed board of administrators.
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