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After a humiliating defeat in the Sabang Assembly by-election, a despondent mood prevails in the state Congress as its leadership anounced Goutam Basu as the candidate for Noapara Assembly bypoll.
On the other hand, having already announced their nominees, both Trinamul Congress and CPI-M have started their election campaign.
While the name of Basu, a councillor of Garulia municipality, was doing the rounds for weeks as the Congress nominee, there has not been any official annoucement from Bidhan Bhavan, the state Congress headquarters.
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Lack of coordination was palpable in the Congress camp as even after leader of the Oppostion, Abdul Mannan, is learnt to have sent the names of his candidates of preference, he told reporters that he would go by PCC president Adhir Chowdhury’s decision.
The preparation for the election is markedly absent in Congress, even as its political rivals are way ahead in campaigning, a senior leader said. It was up to the PCC chief to take the final call in this matter after the AICC nod, but the delay will adversly affect our efforts to reach out to the voters, he said.
Moreover, the delay has dismayed the party rank and file, a senior leader said. Given the fact that the seat was won by Madhusudan Ghosh last year as a nominee of the Congress-Left Front electoral, the Congress nominee has a tough task ahead in this triangular electoral battle.
With the Front having announced its candidate, the Congress can no longer bank upon the support of some of the voters who supported its nominee last year.
Meanwhile, some senior Congress leaders admitted the party activists in Noapara will not be able to go into election mode as soon as the party nominee is announced.
The delay in naming the party nominee have slackened the organisational structure of Congress in Noapara where the election victory had rejuvented it last year. The delay has denied the party an opportunity to offer its rivals a neck to neck electoral battle.
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