Nisith Pramanik of Cooch Behar, 35, is youngest entrant in Team Modi
India Today
In Indian politics, where 50-year-olds are referred to as young, Nisith Pramanik is only 35. But his real achievement lies in bringing Cooch Behar out of the shadows of Kolkata and putting it on the national map.
57 votes. From May 2, 2021, that number has hung around Nisith Pramanik's neck like an albatross around that sailor from Coleridge's famous poem. There were digs taken at Pramanik. Mamata Banerjee had just handed a resounding defeat to the 'duo from Gujarat' and back home in Nisith's own constituency Dinhata, the scene was hardly any better. A confident Pramanik on poll day had said he would win by '30,000 votes'. That 30,000 was reduced to 57 when the results came out. But it needed a Nisith Pramanik to snatch the Dinhata bastion from the Guhas. Before 2021, there was 2019. In that Lok Sabha election Nisith Pramanik won by 54,231 votes. That is when the rise and rise of this young man of Cooch Behar began.More Related News