{"id":8857,"date":"2020-03-13T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:04","slug":"trinamool-to-support-dinesh-bajaj-in-rajya-sabha-5th-seat-from-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/trinamool-to-support-dinesh-bajaj-in-rajya-sabha-5th-seat-from-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinamool to support Dinesh Bajaj in Rajya Sabha 5th seat from Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":os\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":or\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Former Trinamool Congress MLA Dinesh Bajaj filed nomination for Rajya Sabha from West Bengal on Friday as an independent candidate. Trinamool Congress will support Bajaj.<br \/>\nFive Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal will fall vacant in April as the tenure of five candidates in these seats come to an end. The election to these seats will be held on March 26.<br \/>\nFour Trinamool Congress candidates have already been confirmed. In the 294-seat state Assembly, a candidate needs 49 first-preference votes to win a seat to Rajya Sabha.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Trinamool, which has over 230 MLAs, is thus sure to win in four of the five seats.<br \/>\nThe Left-Congress alliance which has a combined strength of 51 MLAs in Assembly can, however, win one seat. They have fielded former Kolkata mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya as their candidate.<br \/>\nTrinamool Congress thus plans to use its remaining votes for supporting Bajaj in the fifth seat with the help of a number of independent MLAs after electing their four candidates under the party banner.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Rajya Sabha MPs from West Bengal to elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[252,251,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-parliament","9":"tag-rajya-sabha","10":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857","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=8857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8857"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=8857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}