Kolkata : Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday announced its candidates for 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. The party has fielded cricketer Yusuf Pathan against Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Choudhary from Baharampur seat.
Trinamool Congress National General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee released the list of Trinamool Congress candidates for 42 Lok Sabha seats. He told that TMC’s candidate for Lok Sabha seat from Asansol will be Shatrughan Sinha. Mamata Banerjee has announced that Trinamool Congress will contest elections alone in West Bengal.
Apart from this, the names of actor Shatrughan Sinha from Asansol and former cricketer Kirti Azad from Durgapur are also included in the list. TMC has canceled the ticket of actress Nusrat Jahan from Basirhat Lok Sabha seat and actress Mimi Chakraborty from Jadavpur seat.
TMC has given tickets to 16 sitting MPs for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. These also include 12 women. Apart from this, two big faces of Bengali film industry, Rachna Banerjee, have been given tickets from Hooghly and Deepak Adhikari Dev from Ghatal.