West Bengal may witness a high-voltage battle between chief minister Mamata Banerjee and BJP s Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram.
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday declared the names of 291 candidates for the 294-member state assembly. Banerjee would contest from Nandigram, the constituency held by her former loyalist Suvendu Adhikari who crossed over to the BJP in December last year.
Banerjee has left her traditional seat of Bhowanipore. The TMC has fielded Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay from her home turf.
The remaining three seats of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong have been left for TMC’s alliance partner Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM).
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Mar 03, 2021, 21:12 PM IST
Kolkata: Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly election, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress will announce the full list of candidates on March 5.
TMC chief Mamata Banerjee will announce the names of the candidates from her Kalighat residence. Earlier, it was speculated that
While, Bidhannagar Mayor-in-Council Debasish Jana and three Trinamool Congress (TMC) councilors from Asansol joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday. The four TMC leaders were inducted into BJP in presence of the party`s state president Dilip Ghosh.
Also, MLA Jitendra Tiwari joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday (March 1). He joined BJP in the presence of party state chief Dilip Ghosh at an event in Sreerampur in Hooghly district.