West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday fielded former cricketer Yusuf Pathan from the Baharampur Lok Sabha seat.
The TMC declared the candidate list for all 42 Lok Sabha seats of West Bengal, dropping at least eight sitting MPs. The ruling party also pitted another former cricketer Kriti Azad. Azad was declared the candidate from the Bardhaman-Durgapur constituency.
Here is the full list of TMC 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
