Statesman News Service
MALDA, Jan. 14: The former Union minister of state and at present the leader of Bharatiya Janashakti, Mr Tapan Sikdar, today held a meeting here with a small group of local leaders and asked them to prepare for the panchayat election in Malda district. Mr Sikdar told them that the panchayat election would be the only way to introduce party activities among the common people, by selecting contesting candidates in the three tier rural polls. It was decided that Bharatiya Janashakti would field 300 candidates in the gram panchayat election. The party leaders have planned to select at least 50 contesting candidates for the panchayat samiti election. The local leaders of the party had decided to contest in two zilla parishad seats in Habibpur and Bamongola area. It may be noted that in Habipur and Bamongola area, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a stronghold and Mr Tapan Sikdar did a lot for the BJP here as the local resident of Habibpur. The BJP and the Trinamul Congress had won two Malda zilla parishad seats each from Habibpur block area in the last election.
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