Trinamool fields Yusuf Pathan, repeats Moitra in LS candidates list
Updated: Mar 10th, 2024
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The Trinamool Congress (TMC) today announced the names for all 42 Lok Sabha seats for the upcoming Lok Sabha election 2024.
The names were announced by Abhishek Banerjee during a rally at the Brigade Ground in Kolkata. He will be contesting from the Diamond Harbour constituency
The surprise candidate put up by the party is former cricketer Yusuf Pathan from the Baharampur seat. Congress’ Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is the sitting MP from the seat.
In other major takeaways from Trinamool’s list, sitting MP actor Nusrat Jahan, the sitting MP from the Basirhat seat, has been dropped from the list. And party MLA Haji Nurul Islam has been fielded from the constituency.
Mahua Moitra has been renominated from the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency.
As expected, popular actor of yesteryears, Shatrughan Sinha, who is the sitting TMC Lok Sabha member from Asansol constituency also in West Burdwan district, got re-nominated this time as well.
Another surprise in the list was fielding of Bengali cine-star and anchor of the popular reality show “Didi Number 1” Rachana Banerjee for Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency in Hooghly district.
Another actress-turned politician June Malia, who is already a Trinamool Congress legislator, will be contesting from Medinipur constituency in West Midnapore district.
Actor Prasun Banerjee, who is already the sitting Lok Sabha member from Howrah constituency in Kolkata adjacent Howrah district, has also been re-nominated.
Kirti Azad will contest from the Bardhaman-Durgapur constituency in West Burdwan district.
Actor Saayoni Ghosh will be contesting from the Jadavpur constituency after actor Mimi Chankraborty’s announcement that she wanted to quit politics.
(Source: IANS)
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