In an effort to put an end to rumours over its pre-election seat sharing with the Congress party, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) declared candidates for each of West Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats on Sunday. The TMC’s large Jana Garjan Sabha, which was held at Brigade Parada Grounds in Kolkata, announced the list of candidates.
In addition to women, newcomers, celebrities, and veteran performers, the TMC’s list of Lok Sabha candidates prioritizes members of scheduled tribes, scheduled castes, and Adivasi communities. The party put 12 women on the ballot and nominated 16 current Members of Parliament.
There are 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal; 32 of these are unreserved, and the remaining 10 are designated for candidates from scheduled castes (SC) and two for scheduled tribes (ST), respectively.
Here’s the list of TMC Lok Sabha 2024 candidates:
1. Alipurduar (ST): Prakash Baraik
2. Arambagh (SC): Mitali Bag
3. Asansol: Shatrughan Sinha
4. Baharampur: Yusuf Pathan
5. Balurghat: Biplab Mitra
6. Bangaon (SC): Biswajit Das
7. Bankura: Arup Chakraborty
8. Barasat: Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
9. Basirhat: Haji Nurul Islam
10. Barrackpore: Partha Bhowmick
11. Bardhaman Purba (SC): Sharmila Sarkar
12. Birbhum: Satabdi Roy
13. Bishnupur (SC): Sujata Khan
14. Bolpur (SC): Asit Kumar Mal
15. Bardhaman-Durgapur: Kirti Azad
16. Cooch Behar: Jagdish Basunia
17. Darjeeling: Gopal Lama
18. Diamond Harbour: Abhishek Banerjee
19. Dum Dum: Saugata Roy
20. Ghatal: Dipak Adhikari ‘Dev’
21. Hooghly: Rachna Banerjee
22. Howrah: Prasun Banerjee
23. Jadavpur: Saayoni Ghosh
24. Jaynagar (SC): Pratima Mondal
25. Jalpaiguri: Nirmal Chandra Roy
26. Jangipur: Khalilur Rahman
27. Jhargram (ST): Kalipada Soren
28. Kanthi: Uttam Barik
29. Kolkata Dakshin: Mala Roy
30. Kolkata Uttar: Sudip Bandyopadhyay
31. Krishnanagar: Mahua Moitra
32. Maldaha Dakshin: Shahnawaz Ali Rizwan
33. Maldaha Uttar: Prasun Banerjee
34. Mathurapur (SC): Bapi Halder
35. Medinipur: June Malia
36. Murshidabad: Abu Taher Khan
37. Purulia: Santiram Mahato
38. Raiganj: Krishna Kalyani
39. Ranaghat (SC): Mukut Mani Adhikari
40. Serampore: Kalyan Banerjee
41. Tamluk: Debangshu Bhattacharya
42. Uluberia: Sajda Ahmed
