TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today launched her party's Lok Sabha campaign at the Brigade Parade Ground in Calcutta. In a video shared by news agency ANI, Banerjee could be seen walking and waving at her supporters as loud pro-TMC music played in the background.
The TMC supremo has released the list of candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, which features many high-profile names including former cricketer Yusuf Pathan, Abhishek Banerjee and Mahuao Moitra.
CM Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee is all set to defend his Diamond Harbor seat in the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The other candidates on the list include Gopal Lama from Darjeeling, Nirmal Chandra Roy from Jalpaiguri , Pratima Mondal from Joynagar, Bapi Haldar from Mathurapur etc. Meanwhile, ousted TMC MP Mahua Moitra will again contest the Lok Sabha elections from Krishnanagar seat.
TMC's announcement of candidates in all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal is a major setback for the INDIA bloc. Earlier, Mamata Banerjee declared that she would go solo to West Bengal, but Congress sources had revealed that the talks were still on.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has reacted to TMC's announcement about the candidate list and said, “The Indian National Congress has repeatedly expressed its desire to enter into a respectable seat-sharing agreement with the TMC in West Bengal. The Indian National Congress has always maintained that. Any such agreement must be finalized through negotiations and not through unilateral announcements. The Indian National Congress has always wanted the INDIA group to fight together against the BJP.”
In the last Lok Sabha elections in 2019, TMC had won 22 of the 42 seats in the state, while Bhartiya Janta Party had won 18 seats and Congress could win only 2 seats.
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Published: Mar 10, 2024 2:32 PM IST