Bengal: BJP takes over Bhatpara Municipality from Trinamool Congress
Barrackpore, Jun 4 (UNI): Lotus bloomed for the first time in an elected body in West Bengal when a majority of Councillors of Bhatpara Municipality in North 24 Parganas elected Saurav Singh, who switched over to the BJP recently, as the new chairman, dislodging sitting chief Somnath Talukdar.
Saurav Singh is the nephew of BJP's Barrackpore MP Arjun Singh, whose son Pawan Singh is also the MLA of Bhatpara. He won the seat on May 19 by-poll defeating former TMC minister Madan Mitra.
As many as 26 sitting Councillors voted for Saurav Singh in the house of 35 municipal board.
The board has now 33 members after one member died and former chairperson Arjun Singh quit Bhatpara municipal office to fight the Lok Sabha poll.
Rumour was also doing round across Bhatpara that the state government might appoint an administrator to run the show after dissolving it.
The BJP sources said, in that case, the party may move the court of law for justice.
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