Trinamool Congress Chooses Journalist Sagarika Ghose And Three Others For Rajya Sabha Candidature; Here's A Brief Profile Of Them

Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) announced the candidature of Sagarika Ghose, Sushmita Dev, Mohammed Nadimul Haque and Mamata Thakur for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha elections on Sunday (11 February).

Sagarika Ghose is a journalist and wife of India Today journalist Rajdeep Sardesai. It will be her debut in party politics, while Nadimul Haque was already a member of the Rajya Sabha.

Mamata Thakur has earlier been a member of Lok Sabha by winning Bangaon by-polls in 2015. However, this will be her debut in the Rajya Sabha as well.

Sushmita Dev too has been a member of Lok Sabha, when she won the 2014 elections from Silchar in Assam on a Congress ticket. However, she lost the 2019 elections to BJP's Rajdeep Roy.

She then joined TMC in 2021 and became a Rajya Sabha member for a span of two years as TMC leader Manas Bhunia passed away after completing only four years of his six-year term.

Dev will now be selected for full-term as Rajya Sabha MP, while Haque is set to start his third term as a Rajya Sabha MP after having been a member of the Upper House since 2012.