Bengal CM Adhikari to retain Bhabanipur Assembly segment, give up Nandigram

Adhikari had won both the Bhabanipur and Nandigram seats in the recently concluded Assembly elections in West Bengal. However, he took oath in the state Assembly on Wednesday as an MLA from Bhabanipur. The chief minister further said that someone else would now be elected as MLA from Nandigram in bypolls.

However, while announcing his decision to give up the seat, Adhikari assured that he would fulfill all development-related promises made to the people of Nandigram.

“…I will not let the people there feel my absence during the next five years,” he said. “I will fulfil all development promises I made to the people of Nandigram alongside the rest of the state,” Adhikari told reporters outside the Bengal Assembly premises.