{"id":336252,"date":"2022-03-14T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T05:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=336252"},"modified":"2022-03-14T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T05:52:09","slug":"mamata-picks-shatrughan-sinhababul-supriyo-for-bengal-bypolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mamata-picks-shatrughan-sinhababul-supriyo-for-bengal-bypolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata picks Shatrughan Sinha,Babul Supriyo for Bengal bypolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-336253\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"858\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/03\/k.jpg 858w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/03\/k-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/03\/k-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/03\/k-696x389.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/03\/k-751x420.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced that two former Union Ministers Shatrughan Sinha &amp; Babul Supriyo for contest the upcoming West Bengal by polls for the Trinamool Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Bengal Chief Minister announced that Shatrughan Sinha will be the party\u2019s candidate for bypoll to Asansol Lok Sabha seat and Babul Supiyo will be the candidate for Ballygunge Assembly constituency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy to announce on behalf of the All-India Trinamool Congress that Sri Shatrughan Sinha, former Union Minister and famed actor, will be our candidate in Lok Sabha by-election from Asansol \u201d the TMC Chief tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSri Babul Supriyo, former union minister and noted singer, will be our candidate in Vidhansabha by-election from Ballygunge. Jai Hind, Jai Bangla, Jai Ma- Mati- Manush \u201c.<\/p>\n<p>The Asansol Lok Sabha seat became vacant after Supriyo, a two-time BJP MP, quit the saffron party last year and joined the Trinamool. The Ballygunge Assembly seat was vacant following the demise of state minister Subrata Mukherjee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced that two former Union Ministers Shatrughan Sinha &amp; Babul Supriyo for contest the upcoming West Bengal by polls for the Trinamool Congress. Bengal Chief Minister announced that Shatrughan Sinha will be the party\u2019s candidate for bypoll to Asansol Lok Sabha seat and Babul Supiyo will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":336253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12113,15243,1889,11208,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336254,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336252\/revisions\/336254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/336253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}