TMC Candidate List: Trinamool has announced candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats of Bengal for the Lok Sabha elections. Trinamool has fielded cricketer Yusuf Pathan from Baharampur seat against Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Choudhary.
Along with this, former cricketer Kirti Jha Azad has been given ticket from Bardhaman-Durgapur seat. Trinamool Congress is in talks with SP's Akhilesh Yadav to contest from a Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh.
The ticket of Arjun Singh, who joined Trinamool after winning the election from Barrackpur seat on BJP ticket in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, has been cut. Trinamool has given ticket to state government minister Partha Bhowmik in place of Arjun Singh from Barrackpur.
TMC announced the names of all its candidates during the rally held at Brigade Ground. Abhishek Banerjee announced his candidates on all the seats one by one.
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TMC candidates list for Lok Sabha elections 2024
| Place Name | Candidates |
|---|---|
| Kolkata | Sudeep Bandopadhyay |
| Kolkata South | Mala Rai |
| Howrah | Prasun Banerjee |
| Diamond Harbor | Abhishek Banerjee |
| Dum Dum | Prof. Saugata Roy |
| Shrirampur | Kalyan Banerjee |
| Hooghly | Rachna Bandopadhyay |
| Barrackpore | Parth Bhowmik |
| Barasat | Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar |
| Arambagh | Mitali Bagh |
| Ghatal | actor Deepak Adhikari aka Dev |
| Midnapore | June Malia |
| Bankura | Arup Chakraborty |
| Vardwan Ex-Dr. Sharmila Sarkar | Bardhaman-Durgapur-Kirti Azad |
| Birbhum | Shatabdi Rai |
| Tamluk | Devanshu Bhattacharya |
| Basirhat | Haji Nurul Islam |
| Mathurapur | Bapi Haldar |
| Alipurduar | Prakash Chik Baraik |
| Darjeeling | Gopal Lama |
| Raiganj | Krishna Kumar Kalyani |
| Balurghat | Biplav Mitra |
| Malda Answer | Prasun Banerjee (Former IPS) |
| Malda South | Shahnawaz Rehan |
| Jangipur | Khalilur Rahman |
| Baharampur | Yusuf Pathan (former cricketer) |
| Murshidabad | Abu Taher Khan |
| Krishnanagar | Mahua Moitra |
| Ranaghat | Crown Officer |
| Bangaon | Vishwajit Das |
| Jalpaiguri | Nirmalchandra Rai |
| Cooch Behar | Jagdish Chandra Basunia |
| Vishnupur | Sujata Mandal Khan (wife of BJP MP Soumitra Khan) |
| Jadavpur | Sayani Ghosh |
It is noteworthy that TMC's 'Brigade Jan Sabha' was organized at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata. Trinamool Congress launches 2024 election campaign from Brigade Parade Ground. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee addressed the people in this huge rally called 'Jan Garjan Sabha'. During this, Mamata Banerjee attacked the BJP government and said that we will not allow NRC to be implemented. Today I will bring forward 42 Trinamool candidates for the 42 Lok Sabha seats of Bengal. Earlier, Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee said, 'I want to tell BJP through this Brigade Rally, 'The roar of the people's gun is the immersion of the opposition from Bengal'.
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