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Six in fray for Rajya Sabha polls from West Bengal

Special Correspondent

KOLKATA: With the filing of nomination by Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy and Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee on Friday there are totally six candidates for the biennial elections to five Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal.

Three Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidates — Saman Pathak, Tapan Sen and Moinul Hasan and Barun Mukherjee of the All India Forward Bloc filed their papers on Thursday.

The terms of Nilotpal Basu and Dipankar Mukherjee of the CPI (M), Manoj Bhattacharya of the Revolutionary Socialist Party and Jayanta Bhattacharya of the Congress are set to expire in the Upper House. The fifth seat fell vacant following the death of Biplab Dasgupta of the CPI (M).

While Subrata Mukherjee, former Mayor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation who had left the Trinamool to join the Congress last year, said that he was contesting following a directive from the party high command, Mr. Roy said that he would be representing the "grand alliance" of the people.

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