Another Minister dropped from candidates list

KOLKATA, MARCH 3. West Bengal's ruling Left Front has dropped another Minister from its candidate list for the coming Assembly elections in the State and inducted four more new faces.

The Front had earlier dropped four Ministers on health grounds and inducted 93 new faces on Sunday when it announced candidates for 282 seats. The West Bengal Assembly has 294 seats. A spokesman of the Front said the Janata Dal (Secular) had been allotted three seats, while the Rashtriya Janata Dal had been allotted two and Soshita Samaj Party one.

The spokesman said the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Mrs. Minati Ghosh (CPI-M) had been replaced by a new face, Mr. Narayan Biswas. The spokesman, however, did not assign any reason for dropping Mrs. Ghosh.

The four Cabinet Ministers, who were earlier dropped, were the Labour Minister, Shanti Ghatak, the Small Scale and Cottage Industries Minister, Mr. Pralay Talukdar, the Irrigation Minister, Mr. Debabrata Bandyopadhyay and the Cooperation Minister, Mr. Bhakti Bhusan Mondal.

The Front is yet to announce its candidates for two more seats.

- UNI

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