Published 20:35 IST, March 21st 2019
CONFIRMED: BJP fields Chandra Kumar Bose from Kolkata South in 2019 Lok Sabha polls; Here are the 28 announced names from West Bengal
In the race up to the Lok Sabha elections that is scheduled to be held in seven phases from April 11 to May 19, the BJP released its first list that includes 182 candidates. The party's central election committee (CEC) met on Wednesday evening as a part of its deliberations to solidate the candidate list.
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In race up to Lok Sabha elections that are scheduled to be held in seven phases from April 11 to May 19, BJP released its first list that includes 182 candidates. party's central election committee (CEC) met on Wednesday evening as a part of its deliberations to consolidate candidate list.
To contend against chief minister Mamata Banerjee's TMC and a dodgy Congress-CPI (M) probable alliance, BJP has released its first list for state of West Bengal.
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grand nephew of Subhash Chandra Bose, Chandra Kumar Bose is set to fight South Kolkata seat, and is new face of BJP in Mamata Banerjee-led state.
Here is list:
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- Maldaha Uttar - Khn Murmu
- Maldaha Dakshin- Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury
- Krishnanagar- Kalyan Chowbey
- Barrackpur- Arjun Singh
- Dum Dum- Samik Bhattacharya
- Barasat- Dr. Mrinal Kanthi Debnath
- Basirhat- Sayantan Basu
- Jaynagar- Dr. Ashok Kandari
- Mathurapur- Shyamapras Halder
- Javpur- Anupam Hazra
- Kolkata Dakshin- Chandra Kumar Bose
- Kolkata Uttar- Rahul Sinha
- Serampore- Debajit Sarkar
- Hooghly- Locket Chaterjee
- Arambagh- Tapan Roy
- Tamluk- Siddharth Naskar
- Ghatal- Bharati Ghosh
- Jhargram- Dr. Kunar Hembram
- Medinipur- Dilip Ghosh
- Bishnupur- Soumitra Kha
- Bardhaman Purba- Paresh Chandra Das
- Asansol- Babul Supriyo
- Birbhum- Dudh Kumar Mondal
- Coochbehar- Nisith Pramanik
- Alipurduars- John Barla
- Jalpaiguri- Jayanta Ray
- Raiganj- Deboshree Chaudhary
- Balurghar- Dr. Sukanta Majumdar
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On Wednesday, party held its third CEC meeting which was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and found party president Amit Shah, and Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley in attendance.
Congress has alrey anunced candidates for 146 Lok Sabha constituencies so far. deline to file minations is March 25.
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20:18 IST, March 21st 2019