Suvendu Adhikari’s MP brother says he’ll vote for Yashwant but in Delhi

KOLKATA: Dissident TMC MP Dibyendu Adhikari on Friday said he would support opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha in the presidential election but would cast his vote in Parliament. Dibyendu, the younger brother of leader of opposition in the West Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari, said he would follow the directive of his party TMC.

“I will abide by the directive of my party TMC. I will vote for Yashwant Sinha but I won’t go to the assembly. I will be going to New Delhi to cast my vote,” he said. He has been maintaining a distance from the TMC since last year’s assembly elections, ahead of which his brother switched over to the BJP. Their father Sisir Adhikari, a three-time MP, is also circumventing the TMC. “We have learnt that an MP elected on a TMC ticket said he will vote for Yashwant Sinha in the presidential election but will go to Delhi and cast his ballot by secret ballot,” TMC

‘...He should rather participate in party meetings in his hometown Kanthi on July 17 for July 21 programme, and then come to Kolkata the next day to cast his vote here, or else we would understand it is a lie’

spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said.

“He should rather participate in party meetings in his hometown Kanthi on July 17 for July 21 programme, and then come to Kolkata the next day to cast his vote here, or else we would understand it is a lie,” he said. State minister Tapas Ray said Dibyendu and his father were continuing to stay away from party programmes for more than a year. “We have seen how Sisir Adhikari had campaigned for the BJP in the assembly polls,” he said.