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Congress releases first list of 284 candidates for West Bengal polls

Congress releases first list of 284 candidates for West Bengal polls

The Congress on Sunday released its first list of 284 candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly polls, fielding former state unit chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Baharampur and ex-TMC MP Mausam Noor from Malatipur. The Congress, which is going solo in the polls for the 294 assembly seats in the state, announced the names of 284 candidates in one go. While Chowdhury has been fielded from Baharampur and Noor, who joined the Congress recently from Malatipur, the party also fielded Madhap Rai from Darjeeling, Abdul Hannan from Sujapur, Susmita Biswas from Dum Dum, Gautam Bhattacharya from Diamond Harbour, Souvik Mukherjee from Asansol Dakshin and Prasenjit Puitandi from Asansol Uttar.
The party has fielded South Kolkata district president Pradip Prasad from the prestigious Bhabanipur Assembly seat, which is set to witness a high-voltage contest between Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari. The Congress has also fielded Rohan Mitra, son of the late party leader Somen Mitra, from Ballygunge. The party’s first list includes several former MLAs, though notably, the name of state Congress president Subhankar Sarkar does not feature in it.

The announcement of candidates came a day after top Congress leaders held detailed deliberations on the list for the West Bengal assembly elections during the meeting of the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) in New Delhi.Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi, along with AICC general secretary, Organisation, K C Venugopal and leaders from West Bengal, had attended the meeting. AICC in-charge for West Bengal, Ghulam Ahmed Mir. Mir had told reporters that the party had received 2,500 applications for the 294 assembly seats. West Bengal assembly elections are being held in two phases on April 23 and 29. The votes will be counted on May 4. 


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