Trinamool Congress nominates prominent Indian journalist Sagarika Ghose to Rajya Sabha

The Trinamool Congress on Sunday (February 11, 2023) introduced the nominations of journalist Sagarika Ghose, former MP Sushmita Dev and two others for the Rajya Sabha election from West Bengal, sidelining three incumbent MPs.

The solely sitting MP among the many 4 retiring Trinamool MPs to obtain renomination is Mohd Nadimul Haque.

The fourth candidate from the Trinamool is former Lok Sabha MP Mamata Bala Thakur, who belongs to the politically influential Matua neighborhood, whereas sitting MPs Abir Ranjan Biswas, Subhasish Chakraborty, and Dr. Santanu Sen weren’t granted one other time period.

“We prolong our heartfelt needs to them and will they work in direction of upholding Trinamool’s enduring legacy of indomitable spirit and advocacy for the rights of each Indian,” the social gathering mentioned within the publish.

Who is Sagarika Ghose?

Sagarika Ghose, 59, has labored with prominent media retailers resembling Times of India, Outlook, The Indian Express, BBC, and CNN-IBN.

She can be an writer, having written a number of books, and presently contributes articles and columns. Her father, Bhaskar Ghose, served as a former IAS officer, and she or he is married to journalist Rajdeep Sardesai.

Interestingly, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee had walked out of a programme ‘Question Time Didi’, an viewers based mostly interplay, hosted by Sagarika Ghose in 2012 in Kolkata. A visibly furious Mamata eliminated her microphone, handed it to Ghose, and left the stage, alleging that everybody within the viewers had been Maoists when a pupil requested her in regards to the escalating assaults on girls within the State and the alleged infringement of democratic rights by the authorities.

Mamata’s abrupt exit made headlines, drawing criticism in direction of Banerjee for storming out of a prime-time present as a substitute of addressing questions in a fashion befitting a mature chief.

The programme aired on CNN IBN went on to win the NT Award for Best Public Debate Show in 2013.

Congress MP and senior lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi is the fifth MP retiring from the West Bengal quota.

While Trinamool is probably going to safe victories for all 4 of its candidates within the elections, the BJP can bag the fifth spot, with Congress unable to safe a candidate win because it lacks MLAs in Bengal.

Elections for as many as 56 of the Rajya Sabha seats in 15 states will probably be held on February 27.