The state municipal affairs and urban development department has announced names of two more Trinamul leaders of Cooch Behar — a former MLA and a minister of state — as administrators of two civic bodies of the district.
While Udayan Guha, the immediate past MLA of Dinhata who lost to BJP candidate and MP Nisith Pramanik, in the Assembly polls has been made the administrator of the municipality in Dinhata, Paresh Chandra Adhikary — who won in the polls and was appointed as the MoS in the school education department — will be the new administrator of Mekhliganj municipality.
In Cooch Behar, Trinamul won in two of the nine seats.
Along with Guha and Adhikary, Kanaialal Agarwal, the district Trinamul president of North Dinajpur who lost in Raiganj, has also been put in the post of administrator of Islampur municipality.
So far as putting party leaders specially those who lost to BJP in the civic bodies is concerned, there has been an “aberration” in Malda.
In Englishbazar municipality — the civic body at the district headquarter — the state has nominated Shekhar Kumar Choudhury, the SDO, as its administrator.
The decision has left a section of Trinamul leaders surprised as unlike other districts, Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury, a former state minister and a senior Trinamul leader who lost in Englishbazar seat, has not been named for the post. “Choudhury has worked as a ward councillor and was also the civic chairman. It is surprising that he has not been nominated,” said a Trinamul leader.
Party insiders, however, mentioned that there is dissent within the party against Choudhury.