New Delhi:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced 28 names out of 42 for West Bengal. The party which is eyeing to get maximum seats in the state has fielded some of the best candidates. The party has ambitious goals in Bengal, with Amit Shah setting a target of over 20 seats for the party to win from the state. Currently BJP has two incumbent MPs in West Bengal which sends 42 MPs to the lower house of the Parliament.
According to the list released by the party, Union Minister Babul Supriyo will contest from Asansol against Trinamool Congress’ Moon Moon Sen. On the other hand, the BJP is yet to announce candidate for its another winning seat Darjeeling. However, it has to be remembered that last time GJM supported BJP in Darjeeling. This time around GJM has sided with TMC, and hence the battle has become much tougher for the saffron outfit.
The grandnephew of Subhash Chandra Bose, Chandra Kumar Bose is set to fight the South Kolkata seat, and is the new face of BJP in the the Mamata Banerjee-led state.
Here is the list:
1. Coochbehar: Nisith Pramanik
2. Alipurduars (ST): John Barla
3. Jalpaiguri (SC): Dr Jayanta Ray
4. Raiganj: Deboshree Chaudhary Balurghat: Dr Sukanta Majumdar
5. Maldaha Uttar: Khagen Murmu
6. Maldaha Dakshin: Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury
7. Krishnanagar: Kalyan Chowbey
8. Barrackpur: Arjun Singh
9. Dum Dum: Samik Bhattacharya
10. Barasat: Dr Mrinal Kanthi Debnath
11. Basirhat: Shri Sayantan Basu
12. Jaynagar(SC): Dr Ashok Kandari
13. Mathurapur (SC): Shyamaprasad Halder
14. Jadavpur: Prof. Anupam Hazra
15. Kolkata Dakshin: Chandra Kumar Bose
16. Kolkata Uttar: Rahul Sinha
17. Serampore: Debajit Sarkar
18. Hooghly: Locket chaterjee
19. Arambagh (SC): Tapan Roy
20. Tamluk: Siddharth Naskar
21. Ghatal: Bharati Ghosh
22. Jhargram(ST): Dr Kunar Hembram
23. Medinipur: Dilip Ghosh
24. Bishnupur(SC): Soumitra Kha
25. Bardhaman Purba(SC): Paresh Chandra Das
26. Asansol: Babul Supriyo
27. Birbhum: Dudh Kumar Mondal
28: Balurghar- Dr. Sukanta Majumdar
