By IANS,
Kolkata : West Bengal’s opposition Left Front Tuesday renominated Centre of Indian Trade Unions secretary Tapan Sen as its candidate for the March 30 Rajya Sabha polls.
Briefing mediapersons after a meeting of front partners, its chairman Biman Bose said Sen’s name was decided unanimously.
The election to fill 58 vacancies to the upper house across the nation includes five seats that are falling vacant in the state April 2. Four of the seats were held by the LF and one by the Trinamool Congress.
The five outgoing Rajya Sabha MPs from the state are Moinul Hasan, Saman Pathak and Tapan Sen of the Communist Party of India-Marxist(CPI-M), R.C. Singh (Communist Party of India), and Mukul Ray (Trinamool MC).
According to the arithmetic in the assembly, Trinamool with 185 seats is in a comfortable position to send three members to the upper house of parliament. The Left Front with 61 members can win one seat.
A candidate needs 49 votes to cross the finish line in the Rajya Sabha race in West Bengal. The Congress has 42 assembly members. It is also banking on the support of
one independent.
The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) has four seats, including an independent, and SUCI-C has one member.