Lok Sabha polls: Left Front announces first list of 25 candidates from West Bengal

After several days of deliberations with the Congress, the Left Front announced the first list of 25 candidates from West Bengal on Friday.

While the party had announced the names of two candidates from Raigunj and Murshidabad constituency, the party fielded their only two sitting MPs from Bengal – Md Salim from Raigunj and Badrudozza Khan from Murshidabad constituency.

Even as the Left-Congress alliance is yet to be officially announced, the party has decided to not field candidates in four seats where Congress had won in the 2014 elections. These four seats are traditional Congress bastions – Malda Uttar, Malda Dakshin, Jangipur and Berhampur.

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The 25 candidates whose names were announced today are :-

1. Coochbehar – Gobind Ray
2. Alipurduar – Mili Urao
3. Jalpaiguri – Bhagirath Ray
4. Raigunj – MdSalim
5. Balurghat – Ronen Barman
6. Murshidabad – Badrudozza Khan
7. Ranaghat – Rama Biswas
8. Bongaon – Alokesh Das
9. Dum Dum – Nepal Chandra Bhattacharya
10. Barasat – Haripad Biswas
11. Basirhat – Pallab Sengupta
12. Joynagar – Subhas Naskar
13. Diamond Harbour – DrFuad Halim
14. Jadavpur – Bikas Ranjan Bhattacharya
15. Kolkata South – Nandini Mukherjee
16. Uluberia – Maksuda Khatun
17. Hooghly – Pradip Saha
18. Arambagh – Saktimohan Mullick
19. Ghatal – Tapan Ganguly
20. Mednipur – Biplab Bhatt
21. Purulia – Bir Singh Mahato
22. Bishnupur – Sunil Kha
23. Burdwan Purba – Iswarchandra Das
24. Burdwan Durgapur – Abhas Roy Chowdhuryt
25. Birbhum – DrRezaul Karim