Kolkata. According to the fifth list of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced on Sunday, Rekha Patra, who became the face of women’s movement in Sandeshkhali, will be the BJP candidate from Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. The BJP announced the second list of candidates for 19 constituencies in West Bengal, which revealed several surprises both in terms of selection of new candidates and re-nomination of existing candidates from different constituencies.
BJP has so far announced the names of candidates for 38 out of 42 seats in West Bengal. BJP is yet to announce candidates for four constituencies – Diamond Harbour, Asansol, Birbhum and Jhargram. As many expected, former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay has been fielded from Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency in East Midnapore.
His rivals in the constituency are Trinamool Congress’s Debangshu Bhattacharya and CPI-M’s Sayan Banerjee. Similarly, six-time Trinamool Congress MLA Tapas Roy has been fielded from Kolkata-North constituency. He recently resigned from the membership of the Assembly and joined the BJP.
Trinamool Congress has again fielded its sitting MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay from there, while the Left Front-backed Congress candidate in that constituency is the party’s former Rajya Sabha member Pradeep Bhattacharya. For Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas district, BJP has fielded Arjun Singh, who is also the sitting MP from that constituency.
He was elected as the BJP candidate from Barrackpore in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and joined Trinamool Congress in 2022. Since the ruling party did not nominate him from Barrackpore this time, he again switched to BJP and got the ticket.
The name of the party’s former national vice president and West Bengal state president Dilip Ghosh, who is a sitting BJP Lok Sabha member from Medinipur constituency, is in the list. But this time he was defeated by sitting Lok Sabha member S.S. from Bardhaman-Durgapur constituency of West Burdwan district. A candidate has been made in place of Ahluwalia. Fashion designer-turned-politician and BJP MLA from Asansol (South) assembly constituency Agnimitra Paul is the party’s candidate from Medinipur.
Candidates for 19 seats of Bengal announced in BJP’s 5th list
Rekha Patra from Basirhat, former judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay from Tamluk, Tapas Roy from Kolkata North, Dilip Ghosh from Bardhaman-Durgapur, Agnimitra Paul from Medinipur, Ashim Kumar Sarkar from Bardhaman East, Arup Kanti Digar from Arambag, Kabir Shankar Bose from Shrirampur, Uluberia. Arun Uday Paul Choudhary from Kolkata South, Debashree Choudhary from Mathurapur, Ashok Purkait from Mathurapur, Swapan Majumdar from Barasat, Shilbhadra Dutt from Dum Dum, Arjun Singh from Barrackpore, Rajmata Amrita Roy from Krishnanagar, Dhananjay Ghosh from Jangipur, Karthik Paul from Raiganj, Darjeeling. Raju Bisht from and Dr. Jayant Roy from Jalpaiguri.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: March 24, 2024, 22:35 IST