Seven days before first phase Assembly polls, Trinamool MLA Abdur Razzak quits party

KOLKATA: Seven days before the first phase of the Assembly elections, senior Trinamool Congress MLA from Jalangi constituency in Murshidabad district, Abdur Razzak Mandal, on Thursday quit the party.

He held a press conference at his MLA office in Kantabari in Jalangi and announced that he was severing all ties with the Trinamool Congress. Not only that, Razzak also targeted the Trinamool Congress' Raninagar candidate Soumik Hossain, alleging that he was unable to contest the Assembly polls from Jalangi because of internal manoeuvring.

He alleged that Soumik Hossain is trying to establish himself as the leader of the Domkal subdivision. That, he claimed, was the reason he was not re-nominated from the Jalangi constituency. He further claimed that the Trinamool Congress would lose all three seats in the Domkal subdivision.

However, Soumik Hossain, in turn, said: “I am not someone who gives tickets. He is saying this to take revenge after not getting an election ticket this time.”

However, although the Trinamool Congress MLA said he has no personal regret over not being given a ticket from Jalangi this time, he has been deeply hurt by comments made by the party’s top leadership.