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In a major setback to the Congress and its unit in West Bengal, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the party’s outgoing floor leader of the Lok Sabha, lost from Baharampur to the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC’s) debut face and cricketer-turned-politician Yusuf Pathan.
The Congress leadership on Monday blew hot and cold with its West Bengal chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury who is caught in the party’s crosshairs over his attacks on Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee.
Wearing an off-white hat, the 68-year-old Congress veteran in white shirt and white trousers, stands erect, riding pillion on a motorcycle as it navigates the narrow lanes of Hijol village in Kandi area of Murshidabad district. The posters on the walls along the way say: “Praner manush, kajer manush, kachher manush (A man after my own heart, a man of work, someone close)”.
Varun Gandhi has been here before, face to face with this question for perhaps as long as he can think back – where does he go next?
A selection committee headed by the Prime Minister on Thursday picked retired IAS officers Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu as the new Election Commissioners, with Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the Opposition member in the panel, recording his dissent and questioning the procedure followed.
The Selection Committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Thursday to finalise the names of two new Election Commissioners (ECs) to fill the vacancies created in the Election Commission after the retirement of Anup Chandra Pandey in February and the surprise resignation of Arun Goel last Saturday.
With the Prime Minister-led selection committee set to meet Thursday to pick two Election Commissioners, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the Opposition member in the three-member panel, has written to the government, seeking the “dossier” containing the “bio-profiles” of the shortlisted persons “well before” the meeting.
In a big claim, Assam chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma has recently claimed that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi might have used his body double during ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ when covering the state between January 18 and January 25.