Campaigning yet to hot up in Sujapur

MALDA, 25 OCT: Though a few days are left for the Sujapur bypolls that is to be held on 7 November, and despite five more candidates apart from the Congress and the CPI-M contesting the election, no remarkable poll campaign has yet attracted the voters in the Sujapur Assembly segment, where the Congress has been maintaining a stronghold since the period of Malda Congress patriarch, ABA Ghani Khan Choudhury.A large section of Congress leaders has already accepted their candidate Mr AN Khan Choudhury, brother of Ghani Khan and the present South Malda MP Mr AH Khan Choudhury. A mad rush has been noticed running after the Mr AN Khan Choudhury's campaign vehicle just to get a glimpse of the Congress candidate, who resembles Ghani Khan.This time the Congress leaders demanded that the party should select a local leader for this by-poll, when Miss Mausam Noor, the newly elected MLA from Sujapur, was elected as an MP from North Malda. On the other hand, the CPI-M has projected a local young man from the Congress family, having failed to nominate a heavy weight candidate. Even the CPI-M leader, Mr Ketabuddin, who contested the last bypoll, did not agree to the party's proposal. Similarly, the two Congress MPs are out of the district due to their respective jobs. At present other candidates like Mr Ajaruddin of the Muslim League, Mr Ebrahim of the CPI-M (ML) Liberation, Mr Manjur Elahi Munsi of the Indian People's Forward Bloc, and the Independent candidates ~ Mr Ajoy Ray and Mohd Samaul Hoque ~ have started campaigning in their local areas.The CPI-ML leaders are influencing people in their pockets where they have a strong base due to their continuous movement on issues of legitimate remuneration for silk reeling units, 100-days job, public distribution system and others. ;SNS