The nomination of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration’s Lok Sabha candidate from West Bengal’s Birbhum constituency, former Indian Police Service officer Debasish Dhar, has been cancelled on technical grounds, The Hindu reported on Friday.
The district election officer revoked Dhar’s candidature as he had not produced a requisite “no dues” certificates from the state authorities. Dhar, who had been actively campaigning for the election, mentioned that he would strategy the Calcutta Excessive Court docket for aid.
Senior BJP chief Debtanu Bhattacharya, who filed his nomination papers on Thursday, will contest the seat in Dhar’s place.
Polling in Birbhum is scheduled within the fourth part of the elections on Could 13. The Trinamool Congress has fielded three time MP Satabdi Roy as its candidate for the constituency.
Dhar was the superintendent of police in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district throughout the Meeting elections in 2021, when members of the Central Industrial Safety Pressure fired at a mob close to a polling station in Sitalkuchi. The incident had claimed 4 lives.
Dhar was subsequently suspended and placed on Obligatory Wait. This refers back to the interval when a police officer is transferred out of their jurisdiction however not allotted any different posting.