Suvendu picks Bhabanipur over nandigram assembly seat
Kolkata, May 14 -- West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday took oath at the state legislative assembly as the lawmaker from Kolkata's Bhabanipur, announcing that he will vacate his traditional bastion of Nandigram in East Midnapore district, which he won for the third consecutive time.
"I had to follow my party's decision. Someone else will be elected from Nandigram, but I promise that in the next five years I will not let the people of Nandigram feel even once that I am not their MLA. All promises I made during the campaign will be kept," Adhikari said.
Adhikari thanked voters after the BJP won 207 of Bengal's 294 seats against the Trinamool Congress's (TMC) 80 seats. He said he would visit Bhabanipur on Wednesday evening....
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