People's Democracy

(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Vol. XXXIV

No. 17

April 25, 2010

                                              

                        KMC Election:

                        LF Candidates Announced

                         

LEFT Front chairman Biman Basu announced early in the afternoon of April 17 names of the candidates put up by the Left Front for the corporation polls of the metropolis to be held on May 30. 

The CPI(M) has put up 96 candidates, CPI 14, FB 11, RSP 10, M-FB, SP, DSP, RJD (LF supported) one each, and BBC and RCPI-- one each.

There are 92 new candidates or 65 per cent of the total.  Most of the candidates are young.  There are 67 women candidates who have been put up in seats over and above those reserved for women.  Biman Basu said that the Left Front was satisfied with the working of the corporation in the present term that had started on and from 2005.

The present mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, who is a lawyer of note, is not contesting the polls this time, and Biman Basu clarified to say that the post of a legal authority was being thought of about him.

                        (B P)