Key Points
All India Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday announced the party's candidates for the 42 Parliamentary Constituencies in West Bengal dropping at least eight sitting MPs and bringing in several new faces such as former cricketers Yusuf Pathan and Kriti Azad...
Pathan got a ticket from the Berhampore constituency and will be up against Congress' Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury..
From the Basirhat Lok Sabha seat, where Sandeshkhali is situated, TMC pitted its former MP Haji Nurul Islam by dropping sitting MP Nusrat Jahan...
TMC will contest solo is Assam, and West Bengal, said West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee..
In 2019, West Bengal voted in all seven phases of the election, and a similar pattern is expected this time, possibly spanning seven to ten phases...
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