Trinamool Congress unlikely to support Congress candidate for Rajya Sabha
KOLKATA: Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya said on Tuesday that Trinamool Congress has decicded not to support its nominee in Rajya sabha polls in west Bengal.
According to IANS “As far as I know, the Trinamool has decided not to support our candidate. I don’t know what will happen later on”.
“I have placed the list of probable candidates of the Congress before Pranabda ( Union finance minister Praanb Mukherjee) and Shakeelji (Congress general secretary Shakeel Ahmed).”
Five Rajya Sabha members will be elected on March 30 to fill up vacancies arising on April 2. A candidate needs 49 votes for his nomination. Trinamool with 185 seats is in a comfortable position to send three members while Left with 61 can send one member to the upper house of the parliament.
Congress with 42 members 6 surplus votes from either Lefty or Trinamool to send its one candidate to Rajya Sabha. Going by the coalition dharma, the Congress seems unlikely to seek support from the Left Front.
