The Congress on Sunday introduced its record of 284 candidates for the two-phase polls to the 294-member West Bengal meeting, fielding former state president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and former Lok Sabha member Mausam Benazir Noor.
The record launched by All India Congress Committee (AICC) common secretary Okay C Venugopal in Delhi named 39 girls, 68 Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates and 16 Scheduled Tribe (ST) nominees.
The Congress and the Left Entrance, led by the Communist Social gathering of India (Marxist), contested the 2021 meeting polls as allies, however neither social gathering received a single seat. In February, Congress common secretary in command of Bengal, Ghulam Ahmed, introduced that the Congress would contest all 294 meeting seats by itself.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who received Murshidabad district’s Berhampore Lok Sabha seat 5 occasions since 1999, was defeated within the 2024 election by former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan fielded by the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress.
Chowdhury resigned as state president after the debacle. He has been fielded from Berhampore meeting phase, which falls underneath his previous Lok Sabha seat.
“I’m an previous soldier of the Congress. If the social gathering desires me to contest, I’ve to,” stated Chowdhury, who final fought an meeting election within the mid-Nineties.
Mausam Benazir Noor, who received the Malda North Lok Sabha seat on a Congress ticket in 2009 and 2014, will contest from Malatipur in Malda district. She joined the TMC in 2019 however misplaced the seat to Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s Khagen Murmu.
Noor, who was made a Rajya Sabha member by TMC, returned to the Congress in January this 12 months and resigned from the Parliament.
Additionally on the record is Rohan Mitra, son of late Congress chief Somen Mitra, one of many longest-serving state presidents, who will contest from Ballygunge in south Kolkata.
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