KOLKATA: AFTER THE central committee of Congress in New Delhi finally gave its nod to an alliance with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal on Thursday (March 12), the TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee announced that TMC would fight for 27 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. While Congress would place candidates for the remaining 14 seats and the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) for one seat only.
Banerjee also announced the names of the 27 TMC candidates. Terming the alliance between Congress and TMC in West Bengal as “a symbol of friendship”, K Kesava Rao, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) official announced in New Delhi that the alliance would sustain up to 2011 Legislative Assembly election in West Bengal to fight against the Left Front, which has been ruling Bengal for the last 32 years.
The names of the TMC candidates are as follows:
Constituency name Name of the candidates
Contai............... Sisir Adhikari
Bishnupur......... Seuli Saha
Howrah............... Ambika Banerjee
Basirhat.............. Hazi Nurul Islam
Kolkata North...... Sudip Bandopadhyayay
Kolkata South....... Mamata Banerjee
Jadavpur............... Kabir Suman
Diamond Harbour............... Somen Mitra (PIC)
Asansol............................. Moloy Ghatak
Birbhum............................. Satabdi Roy
Ranaghat............................... Sucharu Halder
Krishnanagar........................ Tapas Pal
Hoogly...................................... Ratna Nag
Ghatal....................................... Nure Alam Chowdhury
Tamluk...................................... Suvendu Adhikari
Uluberia..................................... Sultan Ahmed
Balurghat.................................. Biplab Mitra
Midnapore............................... Deepak Ghosh
DumDum.................................. Sougata Roy
Barrackpore............................... Dinesh Trivedi
Cooch behar................................ Argha Roy Pradhan
Burdwan East............................ Ashok Biswas
Serampore................................. Kalyan Bandopadhyayay
Mathurapur............................ C M Jatuya
Alipurduar........................... Pawan Lakra
Bongaon.................................... Gobinda Chandra Naskar
Barasat................................... Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
Though Somen Mitra is the founder member of the Pragatisil Indira Congress (PIC) and would fight for the Diamond Harbour seat, he wants the symbol of TMC in the ballot.
Though Somen Mitra is the founder member of the Pragatisil Indira Congress (PIC) and would fight for the Diamond Harbour seat, he wants the symbol of TMC in the ballot.
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