Campaigning for the upcoming
parliamentary election, Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat Congress candidate
Sujay Ghatak today said the BJP candidate is the only competitor for him
from the constituency. He added campaigning will start in the hills
from March 23.
Addressing the press from Bidhan Bhawan
on Hill Cart Road here, the Congress candidate rubbished the TMC’s claim
of securing 75 per cent of the votes from Darjeeling.
He said the Congress currently occupies
15 of the 22 seats in the Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad and Congress
councilors exceed their TMC counterparts in the Siliguri Municipal
Corporation.
Ghatak also slammed the BJP for
misleading the public with false claims. BJP leaders’ statements
contradict one another’s, he said, adding, “We are not outsiders and
working from Ward 16 of the SMC qualifies me to stand from Darjeeling”.
Incidentally, Ghatak is the councilor of Ward 16.(EOIC)