Tag: Nandigram

Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s counsel Friday wrote to the secretary of the Acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court, seeking reassignment of her petition challenging the election of BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari from Nandigram, to another bench. Claiming Banerjee has been made aware that Justice Kausik Chanda, who is hearing her plea, was “an active member of the BJP” and since the adjudication of the election petition will have political ramifications, it was prayed that the matter be assigned to another judge by the Acting Chief Justice, who is...