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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Independents get agents from major parties

SILCHAR, May 14: “Everything is fair in love and war.” And everybody knows, election is nothing but a war—a war for power. And thus, a general secretary of a national party unhesitatingly becomes the election agent of an independent candidate. So does the legal cell member of another national party appears as the agent of another independent candidate.

Interestingly, neither of the parties lodge any complaints against each other and the all powerful central observers remain undone. In Silchar constituency, Jaisundar Das is an independent candidate. But he is lucky enough to get Rajesh Dev, district president of Youth Congress as his election agent. Another independent candidate Nagendra Chandra Das was luckier, as his election agent was Supratim Dhar, popularly known as Partha Dhar, general secretary of district Congress as well as one of the director of HPC.

On the other hand, BJP does not lag behind in this race as its legal cell member Shantanu Nayak is the election agent of Subir Deb, the Samata Party candidate. Ranjit Roy, another general secretary of district Congress as well as former ward commissioner is the election agent of independent candidate Pijush Kanti Das. Jayanta Mallik, another independent candidate gets Tulsi Das Paul, a RSS cadre, as his agent while Nabadeep Das has Mehboob Hussain Mazumdar, an AUDF member as his agent.

Sources said all the major parties are deputing their cadres as counting agents of various independent candidates. A source informs that counting agents of Jayanta Mallik includes Bhola Yadav, a BJP AP member as well as Kisan Morcha vice president, Ajit Deb former BJP ward commissioner, Dulal Chakraborty, a BJP member. The source further says Congress is also deputing their cadres as agents of independent candidates.

It is to be noted that all the candidates are allowed to get 81 counting agents. It implies that on the counting day there will be a show of strength among the three major players in the counting hall. THE SENTINEL

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