ELECTION

Amar Roy Pradhan ousted from JFB

COOCH BEHAR, April 21: Janabadi Forward Bloc has suspended its chairman Mr Amar Roy Pradhan from the party. The decision was adopted at the secretariat meeting of the party that was held last night in Kolkata. Soon, he may be expelled from the party. Prior to his expulsion from the Forward Bloc Mr Roy Pradhan represented Cooch Behar to the Lok Sabha eight times consecutively.

The JFB chairman's son Mr Arghya Roy Pradhan is the Trinamul Congress candidate from Cooch Behar seat. Mr Roy Pradhan too engaged himself in campaigns in favour of his son. The JFB was an ally of the Trinamul-led alliance. But, recently, it decided to come out of the alliance and support the Left Front. Considering the new stance, the chairman was engaged in anti-party activity and so he was suspended from the JFB, said the vice-president of the party Mr Dipak Sengupta.