Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced the list of 42 names for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024 from the State.
Though part of INDIA bloc, the Trinamool Congress is going solo in West Bengal after talks with the Congress for an alliance failed to take off.
The big names include Mahua Moitra (Krishnanagar), Gopal Lama (Darjeeling), also former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan (Berhampore) and actor Shatrughan Sinha (Asansol). TMC party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is contesting from Diamond Harbour against BJP candidate Abhijith Das Bobby.
Ms. Moitra who was expelled from the Lok Sabha for alleged unethical conduct, had won the Krishnanagar constituency in 2019 election. Amrita Roy from BJP is the opponent for Ms. Moitra.
West Bengal will go to polls in seven phases with voting starting on April 19.
Here is the full list of candidates contesting from TMC:
1. Cooch Behar - Jagadish Chandra Basunia
2. Alipurduars (ST) - Prakash Chik Barik
3. Jalpaiguri (SC) - Nirmal Chandra Roy
4. Darjeeling - Gopal Lama
5. Raiganj - Krishna Kalyani
6. Balurghat - Biplab Mitra
7. Maldaha Uttar - Prasun Banerjee
8. Maldaha Dakshin - Sahnawaz Ali Raihan
9. Jangipur - Khalilur Rahaman
10. Baharampur - Yusuf Pathan
11. Murshidabad - Abu Taher Khan
12. Krishnanagar - Mahua Moitra
13. Ranaghat(SC) - Mukut Mani Adhikari
14. Bangaon(SC) - Biswajit Das
15. Barrackpur - Partha Bhowmick
16. Dum Dum - Saugata Roy
17. Barasat - Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
18. Basirhat - Haji Nurul Islam
19. Jaynagar(SC) - Pratima Mondal
20. Mathurapur(SC) - Bapi Haldar
21. Diamond Harbour - Abhishek Banerjee
22. Jadavpur - Sayani Gosh
23. Kolkata Dakshin - Mala Roy
24. Kolkata Uttar - Sudip Bandopadhyay
25. Howrah - Prasun Banerjee
26. Uluberia - Sajda Ahmed
27. Serampore - Kalyan Banjerjee
28. Hooghly - Rachana Banerjee
29. Arambag(SC) - Mitali Bag
30. Tamluk - Debangshu Bhattacharya
31. Kanthi - Uttam Barik
32. Ghatal - Deepal Adhikari
33. Jhargram(ST) - Kherwal Soren
34. Medinipur - June Malia
35. Puruila - Santiram Mahato
36. Bankura - Arup Chakraborty
37. Bishnupur(SC) - Sujata Mondal
38. Bardhaman Purba(SC) - Dr Sharmila Sarkar
39. Bardhaman-Durgapur - Kriti Azad
40. Asansol - Shatrughan Sinha
41. Bolpur - Asit Mal
42. Birbhum - Satabdi Roy
