West Bengal BJP List of Candidates: The BJP on Saturday released its first list of candidates comprising the names of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections which included the names of aspirants for 20 seats in the Trinamool Congress-ruled state that has 42 constituencies. As the party released the list, a major controversy rolled out with the party giving ticket to Bhojpuri singer-actor Pawan Singh from the Asansol seat. As the political pot boiling, a day later, Singh announced on Sunday that he would not be able to contest from Asansol “due to some reason”. His candidacy faced criticism from the TMC, which said that many of his songs were crude and portrayed women, including those from the state, in a vulgar manner.

West Bengal: Full list of Consituencies and BJP Candidates

Cooch Behar (SC) – Nisith Pramanik
Alipurduars (ST) – Manoj Tigga
Balurghat – Sukanta Majumdar
Maldaha Uttar – Khagen Murmu
Maldaha Dakshin – Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury
Baharampur – Nirmal Kumar Saha
Murshidabad – Gauri Shankar Ghosh
Ranaghat (SC) – Jagannath Sarkar
Bangaon (SC) – Shantanu Thakur
Joynagar (SC) – Ashok Kandari
Bangaon (SC) – Shantanu Thakur
Joynagar (SC) – Ashok Kandari
Jadavpur – Anirban Ganguly
Hooghly – Locket Chatterjee
Howrah – Rathin Chakraborty
Kanthi – Soumendu Adhikari
Ghatal – Hiranmay Chattopadhyay
Purulia – Jyotirmay Singh Mahato
Bankura- Subhash Sarkar
Bishnupur (SC) – Soumitra Khan
Asansol – SS Ahluwalia
Bolpur (SC) – Priya Saha

Jalpaiguri (SC) – Dr. Jayanta Roy
Darjeeling – Raju Bista
Raiganj – Kartick Paul
Jangipur – Dhananjay Ghosh
Krishnanagar – Rajmata Smt. Amrita Roy
Barrackpur – Arjun Singh
Dum Dum – Silbhadra Dutta
Barasat – Swapan Majumder
Basirhat – Rekha Patra
Mathurapur (SC) – Ashok Purkait
Kolkata Dakshin – Debashree Chaudhary
Kolkata Uttar – Dr. Tapas Roy
Uluberia – Arun Uday Paul Chowdhury
Sreerampur – Kabir Shankar Bose
Arambagh (SC) – Arup Kanti Digar
Tamluk – Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay
Medinipur – Agnimitra Paul
Bardhaman Purba (SC) – Ashim Kumar Sarkar

Jhargram (ST) – Dr. Pranat Tudu
Birbhum – Debtanu Bhattacharya

Diamond Harbour – Abhijit Das (Bobby)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to contest from Varanasi for the third time, as the BJP unveiled its first list of 195 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls. The list includes 34 Union ministers, among them notable figures such as Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, who will contest from their current Gandhinagar and Lucknow seats respectively. Additionally, former chief ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Biplab Kumar Deb are also featured in the list. Unlike previous polls, the list had few surprises, except in Delhi where four sitting MPs, including Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi, former Union Minister Harsh Vardhan, and Ramesh Bidhuri, have been replaced.