Nadimul Haq among three journalists nominated
to Rajya Sabha by Trinamool
Friday March 16, 2012 04:26:51 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress leadership Friday nominated four candidates for
the March 30 Rajya Sabha polls, including three journalists from
West Bengal.
Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee announced the names of union
minister of state Mukul Roy and journalists Kunal Ghosh, Mohammed
Nadim-ul-Haq and Vivek Gupta.
Ghosh is the associate editor of Bengali daily 'Sangbad Pratidin',
Haq is a senior journalist at the Urdu daily 'Akbar-E-Masriq' and
Gupta is the director of Hindi daily 'Sanmarg'.
"Mukul Roy, Nadim-ul- aq and Kunal Ghosh are the first three
candidates. Gupta is the fourth candidate. Roy has been
re-nominated," Chatterjee told reporters.
On March 30, five Rajya Sabha members from the state would be
elected to fill up vacancies arising April 2.
According to the arithmetic in the assembly, Trinamool with 185
seats can elect three members to the upper house of parliament.
In order to send its fourth candidate, it has to depend on the
support of alliance partner Congress which has 42 assembly
members.
A candidate needs 49 votes to cross the finishing line in the
Rajya Sabha race in West Bengal.
The Left Front with 61 seats had already re-nominated Centre of
Indian Trade Unions secretary Tapan Sen.
The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) has four seats, including an
independent, and SUCI-C has one member. The GJM is likely to go
with the Trinamool while the SUCI-C is yet to spell out its stand.
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