Nominations of all 6 candidates accepted- Rajya sabha -West Bengal

Kolkata, March 13: The nominations of all six candidates for the Rajya election from West Bengal, including Trinamool Congress-backed Congress nominee Abhishek Manu Singhvi, have been accepted on Tuesday, a senior state assembly official said here.

All the documents submitted by the Rajya Sabha candidates were found valid after scrutiny.

"All the nomination papers are in order and have been accepted," the official said.

Subhasish Chakraborty, Abir Biswas, Santanu Sen and Nadimul Haque from the Trinamool, and Communist Party of India-Marxist's Rabin Deb were the others who filed their nomination on Monday in the assembly, making a contest inevitable in case none of these candidates opts out.