MALDA, 22 OCT: Finally, Mr AN Khan Choudhury would contest the Sujapur bypolls on a Congress ticket.
It would be Mr Khan Choudhury's first Assembly election although he had contested in the Lok Sabha poll from Malda in 1996 as an Independent candidate, allegedly backed by the CPI-M, against his brother and Malda Congress patriarch Ghani Khan Choudhury.
The district election officials today accepted Mr AN Khan Choudhury's nomination papers amidst fears that the CPI-M might lodge an objection.
No objection was lodged against Mr AN Khan Choudhury though.
Prior to the nomination, the political circle was agog with speculation that the CPI-M would lodge an objection to Mr AN Khan Choudhury's candidature to prevent a member of the Ghani family from contesting in Sujapur by-poll.
Despite the opportunity arising out of Mr AN Khan Choudhury's citizenship and voters’ identity controversy, the CPI-M refrained from doing so.
It is learnt that the CPI-M district secretary Mr Jiban Moitra was monitoring the situation and had asked his party workers not to file a complaint against Mr AN Khan Choudhury.
After the hearing and inclusion of Mr AN Khan Choudhury's name in the electoral rolls of Malda, the district election officials disclosed: “Had any Malda resident lodged a complaint against Mr AN Khan Choudhury challenging his citizenship, it would have been impossible for us to include his name in the voters’ list on 20 October due to the time factor involved.” ;SNS
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