Key Points
Kolkata: A police officer in real and reel life who has made films and written plays, and one whose star fell after the Sitalkuchi firing during the 2021 assembly polls the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have each fielded a former IPS officer from West Bengal in the Lok Sabha elections...
While Debasish Dhar had resigned from the service citing personal reasons ahead of the BJP declaring him its Birbhum candidate, Prasun Banerjee had tendered his voluntary retirement ahead of the TMC declaring him its Malda Uttar candidate...
Their experiences as serving police officers in West Bengal are different like the parties they have now picked to serve..
Speaking to the media shortly after Banerjees name was announced as a TMC candidate, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of the Opposition in the state assembly, said, He used to work for the TMC in uniform and now he will work with a party flag in his hands...
But former IPS officer Humayun Kabir, who won the 2021 Vidhan Sabha elections on a TMC ticket and was elected MLA for Debra, said he never faced any political pressure while in service...
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