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  • Late RSP leader’s daughter fielded as Trinamool candidate in Kolkata civic poll

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: Basundhara Goswami, the daughter of late RSP heavyweight and former West Bengal minister Kshiti Goswami, who created a flutter by being nominated a TMC candidate in the coming Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) poll, on Saturday said she firmly believed that Mamata Banerjee’s party is capable of thwarting BJP’s communal politics.

    She said that this was the reason why she accepted the offer to contest the KMC poll, which will be held on December 19.

    Goswami, a left student activist since her college days, had been nominated by TMC candidate from ward number 96 in south Kolkata on Friday.

    “I am contesting the civic poll as a Trinamool Congress candidate as I firmly believe that Mamata Banerjee can repulse the BJP and throw challenge to it,” she told reporters on Saturday.

    Goswami had earlier flayed the CPI-M decision to take disciplinary action against Ajanta Biswas, daughter of the party’s late leader Anil Biswas, for writing in Trinamool Congress mouthpiece ‘Jago Bangla’ and called it “unfair”.

    Kshiti Goswami, who was also the RSP national general secretary from 2018–2019, was the state’s PWD minister for over two decades during the Left Front rule in the state but had never shied away from criticising the ruling dispensation on various issues ranging from Singur to Nandigram.

    He had passed away on November 24, 2019.

  • RSP candidate passes away, EC puts off poll at West Bengal’s Jangipur seat 

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Saturday put off assembly election to the Jangipur seat in West Bengal following the death of a Revolutionary Socialist Party candidate.

    As per provisions of the Representation of the People Act, in case a candidate of a recognised party dies, the poll is put off to allow the party decide on a new candidate.

    The new candidate gets to file his or her nomination and goes through the entire process of scrutiny of documents and the opportunity to withdraw nomination.

    A commission spokesperson said, “Poll at 58 Jangipur AC in Murshidabad scheduled on April 26 stands adjourned due to death of RSP candidate.

    ” The Election Commission would announce a fresh poll schedule for the seat in the coming days, officials said.

    Revolutionary Socialist Party candidate Pradip Kumar Nandi, who tested positive for COVID-19 four days ago, died at a hospital in Berhampore on Friday.

    Nandi, 73, was the party’s nominee from the Jangipur assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the ongoing West Bengal assembly elections.

  • IOCL reduced retail selling price of diesel by Rs 2.93, petrol by Rs 0.97 per litre during Sept

    Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL) has reduced the Retail Selling Price (RSP) of diesel by Rs 2.93 per litre and petrol by Rs 0.97 per litre in Delhi during the month of September 2020.

    There was a corresponding reduction in other markets during this period, said IOCL. RSP of PDS (Public Distribution System) Kerosene has reduced by Rs 2.19 per litre at Mumbai with effect from October 1, 2020. With this revision, RSP of PDS Kerosene has reduced from Rs 25.84 per litre in September 2020 to Rs 23.65 per litre in October 2020 at Mumbai,” read a release by IOCL.

    Indian Oil said that the cumulative reduction in RSP at Mumbai since February 16, 2020, has been Rs 12.73 per litre.

    “There was a corresponding reduction in other markets during this period. There has been no change in RSP of Domestic LPG at Delhi and other markets across India for the month of October 2020,” it said.