If Jayalalitha can reshuffle candidates ahead of polls, why couldn’t Mamata Banerjee? , Jayalalithaa, mamata banerjee, trinamool congress, west bengal assembly elections 2016, corruption, narada sting operation, jayalalithaa, nitish kumar, Tamil Nadu asse

If Jayalalitha can reshuffle candidates ahead of polls, why couldn’t Mamata Banerjee? , Jayalalithaa, mamata banerjee, trinamool congress, west bengal assembly elections 2016, corruption, narada sting operation, jayalalithaa, nitish kumar, Tamil Nadu assembly elections 2016 

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalithaa, who is also the supremo of the AIADMK, on Monday changed eight candidates for the May 16 Assembly election in the state. The latest reshuffle is the eighth in the list put up by the ruling party and a total of 21 candidates have been changed so far. The last date of filing nomination for the election is April 29. 

In West Bengal, on the other hand, Mamata Banerjee, the chief of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) said at a rally in Kolkata recently that if she had known about the Narada sting operation accusing a number of candidates in her party of corruption earlier, she could have given it a thought. 

But since she had already finalised the names of her party's candidates (she announced the list on March 4, the day the Election Commission announced the election schedule), she could not do anything. 

If Jayalalithaa or Nitish can change candidates, why can't Mamata Banerjee? Banerjee certainly could have done it like Jayalalithaa or even Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of the neighbouring Bihar who asked an influential minister in his government to resign and also the party withdrew his candidature ahead of last year's Assembly election after a sting operation footage saw him allegedly receiving bribe.

Reason : Mamata's party has very few leaders; party may collapse if she suspends so many candidates The second reason why Banerjee couldn't do a Jayalalithaa is perhaps because her party has very few leaders and far too many opportunistic people.

Cancelling the nomination of so many people at one go could spell disaster for her party noy just because she has no reserve faces to fall back on but also taking such a step would have validated the Opposition's claim that her leaders had indeed taken bribe two years ago when the sting operation was carried out. That could have seen the TMC implode just ahead of the elections.

Hence Mamata Banerjee continued to shield her party and its accused leaders, banking on her own image of honesty.

src: oneindia

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