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May 12, 2014

Final phase of Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal underway, 17 Trinamool candidates in the fray

Final phase of Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal underway, 17 Trinamool candidates in the fray

The fifth and final phase of the Lok Sabhapolls in the State is underway in 17 parliamentary constituencies.

Trinamool Chairperson has campaignedherself in all these seats more than once, apart from several other leaders ofthe party and artists and intellectuals. 

Of the 17 candidates, 9 candidates aresitting MPs and seeking re-election from their respective constituencies. By-election for two Assembly constituencies – Chakdaha and Shantipur – is also underway.


Trinamool has fielded candidates in all seventeenLok Sabha seats. They are:

Baharampur – Indranil Sen

Krishnanagar – Tapas Pal

Ranaghat – Tapas Mandal

Bongaon – Kapil Krishna Thakur

Barrackpore – Dinesh Trivedi

Dumdum – Saugata Roy

Barasat– Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar

KolkataUttar – Sudip Bandyopadhyay

KolkataDakshin – Subrata Bakshi

Jadavpur– Sugata Bose

DiamondHarbour – Abhishek Banerjee

Mathurapur – CM Jatua

Joynagar– Pratima Naskar

Basirhat – Idrish Ali

Tamluk – Suvendu Adhikari

Kanthi – Sisir Adhikari

Ghatal – Deepak Adhikari