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West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026) that helium volition clasp the Bhabanipur Assembly conception and springiness up Nandigram. He took an oath successful the Legislative Assembly arsenic an MLA from the Bhabanipur constituency.
He won both the Bhabanipur and Nandigram seats successful the recently-concluded Assembly polls and took oath successful the State Assembly arsenic an MLA from Bhabanipur connected Wednesday (May 13).
"Someone other volition beryllium elected arsenic MLA from Nandigram [in a bypoll]. But I volition not fto the radical determination consciousness my absence.”
"I volition fulfil each improvement promises I made to the radical of Nandigram alongside the remainder of the state,” Mr. Adhikari told reporters astatine the Assembly premises.
Referring to the 2009-2016 tenure of Phiroja Bibi arsenic a TMC MLA from Nandigram erstwhile Mr. Adhikari was a frontline person of Mamata Banerjee's party, helium said, "I had provided each enactment to Phiroja Bibi, the parent of a martyr successful the 2008 Nandigram constabulary firing, though I wasn't officially the MLA from that seat. I volition play a akin relation this clip arsenic well."
Mr. Adhikari defeated TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee successful her Bhabanipur bastion successful the precocious concluded Assembly polls by a borderline of 15,105 successful a teeterboard conflict portion defending his ain support of Nandigram by 9,665 implicit his nearest rival, Pabitra Kar of the Trinamool Congress.
