Summary:
File Photo of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra. Mahapatra said the decision was “a manifestation of the peoples’ desire to see an end to the oppressive Trinamool regime”. DECLARING A counter-movement against the “oppressive” Trinamool Congress government, Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra, who was arrested for circulating a cartoon of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the Internet, announced Saturday that he will contest in the upcoming Assembly elections as an ‘independent’ candidate. “The decision to contest the polls is more of an experimental venture to try sending a true peoples’ representative to the Assembly who will be the voice of all those who have been oppressed, tormented and attacked by the barbaric Trinamool regime,” he said. The JU professor also asked for the “support” of all political parties across the spectrum..