Bangladeshi youth Zahid Antu has been eliminated from the third round of auditions of India's most popular music-based TV reality show 'Indian Idol'. He participated in this year's audition directly from Kolkata.

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Antu received the news on September 1, even though it was missed on August 18. On Sunday, Antu told the media that today (yesterday) I got to know in a mobile call that I have been excluded.

He also passed the first and second round. Antu was knocked out in the third round. Although he claimed, the performance in the last round was much better than the first two rounds. He was confident of getting past the third round.

Antu also said, we were 700 to 800 contestants in the first round. From there I went up to 120-130 in the second round. Everyone else is excluded. 30 to 40 people were supposed to be placed in the third round. I performed better in the third round than in the previous two rounds. But I couldn't find a place.

In response to a question, Antu said in a frustrated voice, 'I don't know why I was left out!' Many people called the exclusion of Antu political. However, no logical explanation has been found for this.