Kolkata : Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee announced the list of 42 names for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Brigade Ground in Kolkata. The announcement was made at the party’s mega rally ‘Jana Garjan Sabha’, which is being led by party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
Among the big names that popped up include Mahua Moitra from Krishnanagar, Saayoni Ghosh from Jadavpur, Gopal Lama from Darjeeling, Abhishek Banerjee from Diamond Harbour, actor Shatrughan Sinha from Asansol and former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan from Berhampore.
List of TMC Lok Sabha 2024 candidates
1. Alipurduar (ST): Prakash Baraik
2. Arambagh (SC): Mitali Bag
3. Asansol: Shatrughan Sinha
4. Baharampur: Yusuf Pathan
5. Balurghat: Biplab Mitra
6. Bangaon (SC): Biswajit Das
7. Bankura: Arup Chakraborty
8. Barasat: Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
9. Basirhat: Haji Nurul Islam
10. Barrackpore: Partha Bhowmick
11. Bardhaman Purba (SC): Sharmila Sarkar
12. Birbhum: Satabdi Roy
13. Bishnupur (SC): Sujata Khan
14. Bolpur (SC): Asit Kumar Mal
15. Bardhaman-Durgapur: Kirti Azad
16. Cooch Behar: Jagdish Basunia
17. Darjeeling: Gopal Lama
18. Diamond Harbour: Abhishek Banerjee
19. Dum Dum: Saugata Roy
20. Ghatal: Dipak Adhikari ‘Dev’
21. Hooghly: Rachna Banerjee
22. Howrah: Prasun Banerjee
23. Jadavpur: Saayoni Ghosh
24. Jaynagar (SC): Pratima Mondal
25. Jalpaiguri: Nirmal Chandra Roy
26. Jangipur: Khalilur Rahman
27. Jhargram (ST): Kalipada Soren
28. Kanthi: Uttam Barik
29. Kolkata Dakshin: Mala Roy
30. Kolkata Uttar: Sudip Bandyopadhyay
31. Krishnanagar: Mahua Moitra
32. Maldaha Dakshin: Shahnawaz Ali Rizwan
33. Maldaha Uttar: Prasun Banerjee
34. Mathurapur (SC): Bapi Halder
35. Medinipur: June Malia
36. Murshidabad: Abu Taher Khan
37. Purulia: Santiram Mahato
38. Raiganj: Krishna Kalyani
39. Ranaghat (SC): Mukut Mani Adhikari
40. Serampore: Kalyan Banerjee
41. Tamluk: Debangshu Bhattacharya
42. Uluberia: Sajda Ahmed
Earlier in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the TMC had won 22 seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and won 18, while the Congress won two seats. The tally was lower than the 2014 general elections when the Mamata Banerjee-led party had won in 34 of the 42 seats.
