Morcha fields Binay in bypoll The bypoll will be held on May 19
Vivek Chhetri, TT, 24 April 2019, Darjeeling : The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha on Tuesday declared its president Binay
Tamang as the candidate for the Darjeeling Assembly bypoll with a “100
per cent guarantee” that he would be a cabinet minister in charge of
hill affairs in the event of his win.
The bypoll was necessitated
after MLA Amar Singh Rai quit to contest from the Darjeeling Lok Sabha
constituency on a Trinamul ticket.
The bypoll will be held on May 19. The decision to field Tamang was taken by a meeting of the Morcha’s central committee.
Keshav
Raj Pokhrel, a central committee member, had claimed earlier that
Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had promised to make its candidate
a minister if he won the bypoll.
Asked about the ministry,
Pokhrel said on Tuesday: “We can give you 100 per cent guarantee on the
ministry issue. After 40 years, a hill resident will be a minister in
the Bengal cabinet and that, too, with an important portfolio like hill
affairs department.”
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