With 16 days left for Kolkata municipal elections, BJP is yet to predict the candidate for mayor. December 1 was the last day to submit nomination papers for the elections, while the BJP announced its list of candidates on November 29. From that day till December 2, state BJP spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya has been asked repeatedly whether anyone is running for mayor in Kolkata civic polls.
Bhattacharya said, ‘This is our strategy. Even in the assembly elections, we did not contest elections by projecting anyone as the chief ministerial candidate.
Arjun Singh, one of the BJP leaders in charge of the election, said, “The party manifesto for Kolkata civic polls will be launched on December 8. Whether someone will be nominated as a potential mayor or not will be known then. No decision yet.” Is.”
However, a section of the state BJP said there was less interest among workers to be candidates after the party lost a few seats in the Kolkata municipal elections as well as in the bypolls.
In such a situation, going public with a potential mayor face to face may not be realistic. According to other sections of the party, however, the result would have been better had a potential chief minister contested the assembly elections as well. After this, the way can be cleared for the possible face of the mayor in the municipal elections.
However, this time there are many such candidates in the list of BJP whose mother tongue is not Bengali.
Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections are to be held on 19 December. The state BJP had moved the Calcutta High Court seeking a direction to the State Election Commission and the state government to conduct elections to all municipal bodies on the same date.
A division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice R Bhardwaj directed the SEC and the state government to inform the court about the plans for elections to the municipal bodies where elections are due. The matter will be heard again on December 6.
The BJP, in its petition, has said that elections to more than 100 municipal bodies in the state, where they are due, should be held on a single date for free and fair elections.
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