{"id":8574,"date":"2020-02-22T18:02:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T12:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:08","slug":"bengal-civic-polls-trinamool-candidatures-to-be-finalised-before-doljatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bengal-civic-polls-trinamool-candidatures-to-be-finalised-before-doljatra\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal civic polls: Trinamool candidatures to be finalised before Doljatra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress has started\u00a0finalising its list of candidates for the coming civic polls in Bengal.\u00a0The candidates contesting from Kolkata and Howrah are expected to be finalised before <em>Doljatra<\/em>, in early March. Elections are scheduled from the second week of April starting with Kolkata and Howrah municipal corporations.<\/p>\n<p>Existing candidates will be given party tickets based on reports prepared by the team of political strategist Prashant Kishor. Stress will be given on their public relations, performances as well as their \u201clifestyle\u201d \u2013 all of this is directly linked to their public image and the image of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Kishor\u2019s team will also keep an eye on complaints of nepotism, disproportionate accumulation of property and other such things which may negatively affect the candidates\u2019 public profile and thus in turn impact the party\u2019s image negatively. Local lawmakers are being consulted by Kishor\u2019s team in deciding the candidature.<\/p>\n<p>A committee of five has been formed by the Trinamool Congress which will decide on the candidates. The committee comprises of party leaders Subrata Bakshi, Partha Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim, Suvendu Adhikari and Abhishek Banerjee. The committee will take decisions in cases of conflict in selection of candidates in a particular ward when these cannot be resolved by the district committees. The final decision in every case will, however, be taken by party chief Mamata Banerjee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mamata Banerjee will take the final decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,313,165,49,35,46,108],"class_list":["post-8574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal","tag-civic-polls","tag-howrah-municipal-corporation","tag-kolkata-municipal-corporation","tag-mamata-banerjee","tag-prashant-kishor","tag-trinamool-congress","tag-west-bengal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}