Two-time Rajya Sabha MP Chandan Mitra quits BJP
Former Rajya Sabha MP and journalist Chandan Mitra has quit BJP. He had served as a two-term Rajya Sabha MP when he was nominated for a term from August 2003 to August 2009 and elected to another term as a BJP MP in 2010. He had unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha elections in 2014 from Hooghly Parliamentary Constituency in West Bengal.