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West Bengal CM Adhikari to retain Bhabanipur Assembly segment, give up Nandigram
May-13-2026

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced that he will retain the Bhabanipur Assembly segment and give up Nandigram. Adhikari won both the Bhabanipur and Nandigram seats in the recently-concluded assembly polls. Earlier in the day, Adhikari took oath in the state Assembly as an MLA from Bhabanipur.

Suvendu Adhikari said, ‘Someone else will be elected as MLA from Nandigram (in a bypoll). But I will not let the people there feel my absence during the next five years. I will fulfil all development promises I made to the people of Nandigram alongside the rest of the state.’

Replying to a question on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's austerity advice and call for curbing the use of petrol and diesel in the wake of the crisis triggered by the West Asia conflict, Bengal CM said, ‘The prime minister is our guide and mentor. We will follow the path shown by him. Swachh Bharat was one such nationalist call that came from the PM. It was an excellent decision to cut down on the number of convoy vehicles’. Adhikari further said he issued instructions to cut down the number of vehicles in his cavalcade.

In the Assembly elections, Adhikari defeated TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur by 15,105 votes in a closely fought contest. He also retained Nandigram by defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Pabitra Kar by 9,665 votes.


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