The Congress on Sunday released its first list of 284 candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections. It named senior leader and former state unit chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Baharampur and former Trinamool Congress MP Mausam Noor from Malatipur in the list.
The party, which has decided to contest all 294 Assembly seats in the state on its own, announced the bulk of its candidates in a single list.
Among other prominent names, the Congress has fielded Madhap Rai from Darjeeling, Abdul Hannan from Sujapur, Susmita Biswas from Dum Dum, Gautam Bhattacharya from Diamond Harbour, Souvik Mukherjee from Asansol Dakshin and Prasenjit Puitandi from Asansol Uttar.
The release of the candidate list follows detailed deliberations by the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC), which met a day earlier to finalise nominees for the high-stakes election. |
