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Left Front support to Malihabadi for RS seat
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SPECIALCORRESPONDENT on 16 March, 2008 08:09:00
 
West Bengal's ruling Left Front today formally announced that it would support
the candidature of Urdu daily editor, A S Malihabadi for a Rajya Sabha seat from
the state, sealing the prospect of the Trinamool Congress nominee from being
re-elected to the upper house.
Left Front will support the candidature of Malihadabi. All the surplus votes of
the LF will be cast in his favour," Front chairman Biman Bose told reporters
here.
State Congress president P R Dasmunshi had said yesterday that Congress would
support Malihabadi and appealed to all other parties to do so.
Although Trinamool's Dinesh Trivedi had filed his nomination seeking
re-election to the upper house, he did not have the requisite votes to sail
through.
A candiate needs 49 votes to win the poll and the Trinamool has 30 MLAs in the
294-member house.
Shyamal Chakraborty, Tarini Roy and Prasanata Chatterjee all of CPI(M) and
Forward Bloc General Secretary Debabrata Biswas had also filed their nominations
along with Malihabadi.
The Left Front has adequate first preference votes to get its nominees through
and has a surplus of 39 votes