West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday announced that he will retain the Bhabanipur Assembly seat and give up representation from Nandigram constituency.
“I cannot take oath as a Member of Parliament from two constituencies. I have taken oath as a Member of Parliament from Bhabanipur. I will have to leave the Nandigram Assembly constituency…,” the BJP leader told reporters, according to news agency ANI.
In Tamil Nadu also, TVK president and incumbent Chief Minister Vijay contested and won two seats – Perambur and Trichy East (East of Tiruchirappalli). However, as per the rules, he resigned from one seat – Trichy East – and retained Perambur.
Adhikari won the Bhabanipur and Nandigram seats in the recently concluded Assembly elections in West Bengal. However, he was sworn in in the state assembly on Wednesday as MLA from Bhabanipur. The Chief Minister further said that now another person will be elected to the post of MLA from Nandigram in the assembly polls.
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“He will fulfill all the promises he made to the people of Nandigram.”
However, while announcing his decision to vacate the seat, Adhikari asserted that he would fulfill all the development promises he had made to the people of Nandigram.
“…I will not let the people there feel my absence for the next five years,” he said. “I will fulfill all the development promises I have made to the people of Nandigram along with the rest of the state,” Adhikari told reporters outside the Bengal Assembly headquarters.
In Bhabanipur, Adhikhare defeated Trinamool Congress chief and former chief minister Mamata Banerjee by a margin of 15,105 votes, in a contest that continued to the end. Meanwhile, he also managed to defend his Nandigram seat by a margin of 9,665 votes against TMC’s Pabitra Kar.
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Adhikari was received at the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on Wednesday with a guard of honour. He bowed on the steps of the House before entering the House as a sign of respect, ANI reported.
The 2026 Assembly elections in West Bengal saw the BJP form government in the state for the first time, marking a decisive shift from the past. The party won 206 seats in the 294-member West Bengal Assembly, witnessing a significant rise compared to the previous elections in the state, where it won only 77 seats.
Meanwhile, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress, which won 212 seats in the previous Assembly elections in 2021, finished a distant second this time with 80 seats.
