Congress Nandigram candidate Milan Pradhan’s wife speaks to the media on Thursday
Banerjee had announced her support for the Congress candidate after her party’s nominee Sanchita Pradhan Dey withdrew from the contest.
Kolkata: As Congress ’s Nandigram candidate Milan Pradhan’s wife Arpita thanked Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee for supporting her husband, the party’s state chief Subhankar Sarkar said the Nandigram and Rejinagar bypolls will decide the course of opposition politics in Bengal. My husband was arrested in false cases,” she said. The situation has become so grim that my daughter can’t even go to school,” she said. Asked if she wanted Banerjee to campaign for her husband, she said, “I want everyone to stand with us. Congress’s Bengal in-charge Prakash Joshi called Pradhan’s arrest “politics of vendetta” and said BJP was spooked after his party named Pradhan its candidate for the bypolls. “They know of Pradhan’s popularity since the Nandigram movement,” he said.
“I don’t know much about politics. I am thankful to Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee for their support. She added that both her husband and now chief minister Suvendu Adhikari were at the forefront of the Nandigram agitation. “Why should my husband be jailed now?
Arpita was in tears while speaking to reporters at Bidhan Bhawan on Thursday.