West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday released the list of ruling TMC candidates for all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, dropping 10 sitting MPs and bringing in 18 new faces.
The development put an end to all speculations over the tempestuous Trinamool Congress supremo yielding any ground on her home turf to the prospective partners of the proposed ‘mahagathbandhan’, a grand alliance of anti-BJP parties, of which she has been one of the most vocal proponents.
Here is the complete list of Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidates for West Bengal for the Lok Sabha polls 2019:
1. Cooch Behar- Paresh Chandra Adhikary
2. Alipurduars- Dasrath Tirkey
3. Jalpaiguri- Bijoy Chandra Barman
4. Darjeeling- Amar Singh Rai
5. Raiganj- Kanaia Lal Agarwal
6. Balughat- Arpita Ghosh
7. Maldaha Uttar- Mausam Noor
8. Maldaha Dakshin- Dr MD Moazzem Hossain
9. Jangipur- Khalilur Rehman
10. Baharampur- Apurba Sarkar
11. Murshidabad- Janab Abu Taher Khan
12. Krishnanagar- Mahua Moitra
13. Ranaghat- Rupali Biswas
14. Bangaon- Mamata Bala Thakur
15. Barrackpur- Dinesh Trivedi
16. Dum Dum- Sougata Roy
17. Barasat- DR Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
18. Basirhat- Nusrat Jahan
19. Jaynagar- Pratima Mondal
20. Mathurapur- Choudhury Mohan Jatua
21. Diamond Harbour- Abhishek Banerjee
22. Jadavpur- Mimi Chakraborty
23. Kolkata Dakshin- Mala Roy
24. Kolkata Uttar- Sudip Bandyopadhyay
25. Howrah- Prasun Banerjee
26. Uluberia- Sajda Ahmed
27. Sreerampur- Kalyan Banerjee
28. Hooghly- Ratna De Nag
29. Arambag- Ararupa Poddar
30. Tamluk- Dibyendu Adhikari
31. Kanthi- Sisir Adhikari
32. Ghatal- Deepak Adhikari
33. Jhargram- Birbaha Soren
34. Medinapur- Manas Bhunia
35. Purulia- Mriganka Mahato
36. Bankura- Subrata Mukherjee
37. Bishnupur- Shyamal Santra
38. Bardhaman Purba- Sunil Kumar Mondal
39. Bardhaman Durgapur- Mamtaz Sanghamita
40. Asansol- Sreemati Dev Varma (Moon Moon Sen)
41. Bolpur- Asit Kumar Mal
42. Birbhum- Satabdi Roy
In Jharkhand, the TMC will contest three seats, and one in the Andamans. In Assam, where it had unsuccessfully fought the panchayat polls, it will field candidates in six seats.
In Bihar and Odisha, the TMC will contest two Lok Sabha seats each.
The party candidates would also try their luck in 10 assembly constituencies of Odisha. The state is having simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls.
