Mukul Roy Among 306 Candidates In Phase 6 Of Bengal Polls: Key Seats

Noted film director-producer Raj Chakraborty is contesting the Barrackpore constituency as the Trinamool Congress candidate.

BJP's national vice president Mukul Roy is among 306 candidates who will contest 43 constituencies in the sixth phase of the Bengal Assembly elections today. Mr Roy is contesting the Krishnanagar Uttar seat in Nadia district against actor Koushani Mukherjee – his former party Trinamool's candidate – and the Congress's Sylvie Saha. Senior Trinamool leader Chandrima Bhattacharya is another political heavyweight whose electoral fate will be sealed today. She will take on CPIM's Tanmoy Bhattacharya and BJP's Archana Majumdar in the Dum Dum Uttar constituency. In Uttar Dinajpur district's Raiganj, the Trinamool has fielded Kanaia Lal Agarwal against sitting Congress MLA Mohit Sengupta. Krishna Kalyani is the BJP candidate in the constituency.