Trinamool Congress today nominated its trade union leader Dola sen as candidate for the by-election to a lone Rajya Sabha seat to be held on March 20.
Announcing this here, TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee and senior party leader Subrata Mukherjee jointly told a press conference that Sen would contest the seat which fell vacant following resignation by Srinjoy Bose on February 5 in the aftermath of the Saradha chit fund scam.
Srinjoy's term was due to expire on August 18, 2017.
Subrata Mukherjee would replace Dola Sen in INTTUC, TMC's labour wing. Senior party leaders Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay and Pradip Banerjee would assist Mukherjee as working presidents in INTTUC, Chatterjee said.
As per the poll schedule announced by the Election Commission, nominations would be filed between March 3 and 10, scrutiny would be done on the next day and withdrawals be made by March 13.
Polling, if needed, would be held on March 20 and the counting of votes would be held the same evening.
