Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari resigns from Nandigram constituency, retains Bhabanipur seat

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari chose to retain Bhabanipur seat and has resigned from the Nandigram constituency on Friday.

The BJP leader submitted his resignation to Speaker Rathindra Bose within the mandatory 14-day period prescribed under Assembly rules, as per the sources.

Adhikari contested from both Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district and Bhabanipur in south Kolkata in the recently concluded Assembly elections in West Bengal.

He won Nandigram by defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Pabitra Kar by 9,665 votes.

In Bhabanipur, he beat TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee by a margin of 15,105 votes.

(With PTI inputs)