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Former India cricketer Yusuf Pathan will contest Lok Sabha elections as Trinamool Congress candidate from West Bengal’s Behrampore constituency, which is at present held by Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
Congress is but to call its candidates for Bengal, nevertheless, Chowdhury is prone to search a recontest from the seat, which he has represented as many as 5 occasions within the Lok Sabha.
Taking to X, the previous cricketer prolonged his gratitude to celebration supremo Banerjee for welcoming him into the TMC household and trusting him with the accountability to turn out to be the folks’s voice within the Parliament. As representatives of the folks, it’s our responsibility to uplift the poor and disadvantaged, and that’s what he hopes to realize, Pathan added.
The West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led TMC on Sunday introduced 42 candidates for the upcoming common elections in Bengal, making it official there is no such thing as a alliance with the INDIA bloc events within the State.
The seat from which Mahua Moitra was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2019, Karthinagar, will function the backdrop for her contest. She was expelled from the Lok Sabha on account of a bribe-for-question controversy.
The 42-seat didn’t embody the identify of actor Nusrat Jahan, who’s now serving as an MP for Basirhat, a Sandeshkhali constituency, for the Lok Sabha elections.
TMC celebration introduced its checklist of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections at a grand rally held on the Brigade Parade Floor in Kolkata. This was the primary time the celebration had made such an announcement on this method.
The names of the candidates had been revealed by TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, whereas the celebration’s chief and Chief Minister Banerjee, paraded with the 42 candidates in entrance of an enormous gathering on the floor.
In the meantime, Congress claimed that it has all the time most well-liked the INDIA bloc to combat the election collectively towards the BJP and the celebration has made it clear time and time once more that it needs to share seats in West Bengal with the TMC in a good association.
The Indian Nationwide Congress has constantly argued that quite than being finalized by decree, such an accord should be reached by means of discussions. The celebration has all the time wished the INDIA group to combat the BJP collectively, stated senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh.
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