Trinamool Congress candidate for Falta Assembly seat Jahangir Khan withdraws from contest

Trinamool Congress candidate for the Falta Assembly seat, Jahangir Khan, on Tuesday (Could 19, 2026) introduced his withdrawal from the electoral contest forward of the re-polling scheduled for Could 21 in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district.

“Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has introduced a particular package deal for the event of Falta. Within the curiosity of Falta’s improvement, I’m withdrawing from this election,” Mr. Khan mentioned, addressing a press convention on Tuesday morning.

Though the official deadline for withdrawal of candidature or nominations has handed, the title and celebration image of the Trinamool Congress candidate will stay on the EVM even when Mr. Khan doesn’t contest.

A Trinamool Congress assertion mentioned that the choice taken by Mr. Khan was his private selection and never that of the celebration.

“We strongly condemn this. Our combat in opposition to the Bangla Birodhi BJP will proceed—each in West Bengal and in Delhi,” the celebration mentioned.

In accordance with the Trinamool Congress, because the election outcomes have been declared on Could 4, greater than 100 of our celebration employees have been arrested within the Falta Assembly constituency alone.

“A number of celebration workplaces have been vandalised, shut down and forcibly captured in broad daylight via intimidation, whereas the EC continues to show a blind eye regardless of repeated complaints. Even within the face of such stress, our employees stay rock-solid and proceed to withstand the BJP’s intimidation unleashed via companies and the administration. Nevertheless, some finally succumbed to the stress and selected to step away from the sector,” the celebration assertion mentioned.

The withdrawal announcement got here on the ultimate day of campaigning, when Mr. Adhikari was holding a roadshow within the space in assist of BJP candidate Debangshu Panda. Mr. Adhikari mentioned that the choice by the Trinamool Congress candidate was as a result of he was sure of defeat.

Polling for the Falta Assembly seat was held within the second section of the West Bengal Assembly elections on April 29. After large-scale irregularities have been reported, the Election Fee ordered re-polling within the constituency on Could 21.

After the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) gained the 2026 Assembly polls, bagging 207 of the 294 seats, the Falta re-polling could have no bearing on the newly elected BJP authorities. Nevertheless, the constituency has turn into a status battle for the BJP management.

State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya and Mr. Adhikari have campaigned for the BJP candidate. From the Trinamool Congress facet, neither celebration chairperson Mamata Banerjee nor celebration basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee campaigned for Mr Khan.

Throughout campaigning for the lately concluded Assembly polls, Mr. Khan had made the headlines following a verbal trade with IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma. Mr. Sharma, who earned the moniker “Singham” for robust policing, had allegedly threatened a member of the family of Mr. Khan in the course of the marketing campaign. The Trinamool chief responded, “This is Bengal; if he is ‘Singham’, I am ‘Pushpa’.”