Swapan Dasgupta âRenominationâ to RS After Resignation âConstitutionally Wrongâ, âUnprecedentedâ Dasgupta had contested on a BJP ticket from the Tarakeswar seat in the assembly election and lost. He will now return to serve the rest of his original term in the upper house despite having resigned his seat. Swapan Dasgupta with Narendra Modi. Photo: Facebook/Swapan Dasgupta Politics6 hours ago New Delhi: Former journalist Swapan Dasgupta, who had resigned from Rajya Sabha and unsuccessfully contested the recent West Bengal assembly elections on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket, has been renominated to the upper house of parliament by the government. In March, a day after a political row over him contesting as a BJP candidate while also holding the post of an âindependentâ Rajya Sabha MP emerged, Dasgupta resigned from the upper house. The timing of his resignation had led to controversy.