TMC Candidates Full List 2024: All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday announced the party’s candidate list for the 42 Parliamentary Constituencies in West Bengal dropping at least eight sitting MPs and bringing in several new faces such as former cricketers Yusuf Pathan and Kriti Azad.
The party renominated 16 sitting MPs and fielded 12 women.
The list, announced by TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, includes prominent faces – Abhishek Banerjee contesting from Diamond Harbour and former MP Mahua Moitra fielded from Krishnanagar. Meanwhile, contesting from Berhampore, Yusuf Pathan will face Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in the polls.
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Actor Shatrughan Sinha has again been nominated for the Asansol seat. Meanwhile, former MP Haji Nurul Islam replaces actor Nusrat Jahan from the Basirhat seat, which includes the conflict-ridden Sandeshkhali village.
Here’s the full list of TMC candidates:
Cooch Behar – Jagdish Chandra Basunia
Alipurduar – Prakash Chik Baraik (Rajya Sabha member)
Jalpaiguri – Nirmal Chandra Rai (MLA)
Darjeeling – Gopal Lama
Raiganj – Krishna Kalyani
Balurghat – Biplab Mitra (minister)
Malda North – Prasun Banerjee (former IPS officer)
Malda South – Shanawaz Ali Rehan
Jangipur – Khalilur Rehman
Berhampore – Yusuf Pathan (Indian cricketer)
Murshidabad – Abu Taher Khan
Krishnanagar – Mahua Moitra
Ranaghat – Mukut Mani Adhikari
Bangaon – Biswajit das
Barrackpore – Partha Bhowmick (Minister)
Dum Dum – Saugata Roy (MP)
Barasat – Kakali Ghosh Dastidar (MP)
Basirhat – Haji Nurul Islam
Joynagar – Pratima Mondal
Mathurapur – Bapi Haldar
Diamond Harbour – Abhishek Banerjee
Jadavpur – Saayoni Ghosh (youth TMC president)
Kolkata South – Mala Roy (MP)
Kolkata North – Sudip Bandopadhyay (MP)
Howrah – Prasun Banerjee (MP)
Uluberia – Sajda Ahmed
Srirampur – Kalyan Banerjee (MP)
Hooghly – Rachana Banerjee (film star)
Arambagh – Mitali Bagh
Tamluk – Debangshu Bhattacharya
Kanthi – Uttam Barik
Ghatal – Dipak Adhikari (MP)
Jhargram – Kalipada Soren
Midnapore – June Maliah (MLA)
Purulia – Shantiram Mahato
Bankura – Arup Chakraborty (MLA)
Bishnupur – Sujata Mondal Khan (incumbent BJP MP’s ex-wife)
Burdwan – Dr Sharmila Sarkar
Burdwan-Durgapur – Kirti Azad (ex- cricketer)
Asansol – Shatrughan Sinha (MP)
Bolur – Asit Mal (MP)
Birbhum – Shatabdi Roy (MP)
During a short 15-minute speech at the rally, the chief minister Banerjee said, “We will contest all 42 seats in West Bengal against the BJP, Left and the Congress. We will contest one seat in Uttar Pradesh in tie-up with the Samajwadi Party (SP). I had a word with Akhilesh (Yadav). We are an opposition party in Meghalaya. We will contest there, and in Assam as well.”