Enthusiasm among elderly, first time voters in Jammu LS seat, 42.88 % voting till 1pm
An 86-year old Raj Dulari made sure to bring along her entire family to vote at a polling station in Peer Mitha of the Jammu city.
Within hours of the list of contestants for the Lok Sabha election being brought to public, Sayantika Banerjee, the actor-turned-politician resigned from the entire party posts last evening.
Speculations were high that she might switch over to another party. She however didn’t divulge such development as yet.
Sayantika joined the Trinamul Congress ahead of the 2021 Assembly election and was fielded by the party as a candidate for the Bankura seat where she was defeated by the BJP candidate Niladri Sekhar Dana. She seemed an aspirant for the Bankura Lok Sabha seat in 2024, which her party denied, her close associates in the party claimed. She, however, mentioned ‘personal reason’ in her resignation forwarded to her party hierarchy.
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Sayantika, after her defeat in Bankura, was assigned by the Trinamul Congress to look after the party’s organisational works and was entrusted with more political responsibilities as a state general secretary of the TMC. She was present at her party’s mega rally at the Brigade Parade Ground yesterday but she vacated the venue immediately after party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee declared the names of the candidates. Arup Chakraborty, MLA, Taldangra has been fielded for the Bankura seat by the party. Sayantika didn’t wait any longer and left the rally place talking on her cell phone, party men said. Within hours, she forwarded her resignation to party president Subrata Bakshi.
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