SILCHAR, July 18: Although the ensuing civic body poll is an election, in reality, it is a fight between two septuagenarian arch-rivals—Sontosh Mohan Dev and Kabindra Purkayastha in Silchar. Or to be more precise, it is their fight to place their offsprings into the orbit of electoral politics.
Both the veteran players have already announced that they would not contest in election in future, but what they did not express was that they chose the civic body election as the launching pad for their daughter and son respectively.
Dev’s younger daughter Susmita, who is a practising lawyer in the Supreme Court, is the Congress candidate in Ward No. 27—the ward which had seen the rise of her grandfather Satindra Mohan Dev, father Sontosh Mohan Dev and mother Bithika Dev in the national and State politics.
After losing the recent Lok Sobha election, Dev announced that he had taken retirement from electoral politics and maintained that his daughter Susmita would join politics.
Initially, the Dev couple were not serious to field Susmita this time —just after Dev’s debacle in the Lok Sobha elction only two months back.
But, after a closed-door meeting with Tarun Gogoi at the latter’s bunglow in Guwahati Dev resented for Susmita’s candidature, though he had been taking extra care to make it clear that Susmita, at least as of now, is not the projected chairperson of the Board.
On the other hand, Kabindra Purakayastha’s son Kanad, who had maintained a low profile a few days back, now monitors the entire municipality election strategy of BJP. Though he is not a candidate, Kanad, an energetic youth, faces the media, addressing public rally and steers the campaigning.
Sources said Purkayastha is aiming to project his only son as an MLA candidate for either Katigorah or Silchar. SOURCE: THE SENTINEL
Both the veteran players have already announced that they would not contest in election in future, but what they did not express was that they chose the civic body election as the launching pad for their daughter and son respectively.
Dev’s younger daughter Susmita, who is a practising lawyer in the Supreme Court, is the Congress candidate in Ward No. 27—the ward which had seen the rise of her grandfather Satindra Mohan Dev, father Sontosh Mohan Dev and mother Bithika Dev in the national and State politics.
After losing the recent Lok Sobha election, Dev announced that he had taken retirement from electoral politics and maintained that his daughter Susmita would join politics.
Initially, the Dev couple were not serious to field Susmita this time —just after Dev’s debacle in the Lok Sobha elction only two months back.
But, after a closed-door meeting with Tarun Gogoi at the latter’s bunglow in Guwahati Dev resented for Susmita’s candidature, though he had been taking extra care to make it clear that Susmita, at least as of now, is not the projected chairperson of the Board.
On the other hand, Kabindra Purakayastha’s son Kanad, who had maintained a low profile a few days back, now monitors the entire municipality election strategy of BJP. Though he is not a candidate, Kanad, an energetic youth, faces the media, addressing public rally and steers the campaigning.
Sources said Purkayastha is aiming to project his only son as an MLA candidate for either Katigorah or Silchar. SOURCE: THE SENTINEL
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