West Bengal Assembly polls | Four MPs, actors and dissident TMC leaders in BJP list
The Hindu
Four sitting MPs, a host of actors and dissident leaders of Trinamool Congress were among the list of candidates nominated on Sunday by the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) to contest the upcoming 2021 Assembly polls in West Bengal.
The BJP announced candidates for 63 of the 75 seats for the third and fourth phase of polls in the State that will go to polls on April 6 and April 10 respectively. Union Minister and Asansol Lok Sabha MP Babul Surpiyo will contest from Tollygunj seat in south Kolkata, while Hooghly Lok Sabha Locket Chatterjee will contest from Chunchura Assembly seat in the same district. The BJP’s candidate list also included Cooch Behar MP Nisith Pramanik would be contesting from Dinhata Assembly seat in the same district while Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta has been nominated from Tarakeshwar in Hooghly district.
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