KOLKATA: Former Indian soccer captain Dipendu Biswas will be the Trinamool Congress candidate for the Basirhat South assembly seat bypoll scheduled to be held next month, the party announced yesterday.
Biswas, 32, a product of the Tata Football Academy, captained the Indian under-19, under-21 and senior teams during his playing career.
He also turned out for leading club like East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, Mohammedan Sporting and Mahindra United.
The Basirhat South seat fell vacant after the death of incumbent Communist Party of India-Marxist legislator Narayan Mukhopadhyay.
Trinamool Congress national general secretary Mukul Roy also announced that actress Nayana Bandopadhyay will be the party nominee for the Chowringhee assembly by-election.
Nayana, wife of Trinamool Lok Sabha member Sudip Bandopadhyay, was earlier a Trinamool legislator from the Bowbazar constituency.
The resignation of sitting Trinamool legislator Sikha Mitra has rendered the Chowringhee seat vacant.
IANS
