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Left Front and Trinamool Congress announce list of candidates for Lok Sabha polls in Tripura
KOLKATA: Given the fact that Trinamool Congress is all set to contest 41 Lok Sabha seats in Bengal, it would need to field 14 more candidates than the 27 it had fielded in 2009 Lok Sabha polls. Not only 14 new faces, Trinamool Congress will nominate more first-timers. The first-timers' list includes yesteryear cinestars — and at least one from the present crop — physician, news anchor, academic, artist and even players. The list will also have battle-hardened politicians.
The backdrop isn't hard to understand. The defections in Diamond Harbour and Jadavpur Lok Sabha seats with Somen Mitra joining Congress and Kabir Suman severing his Trinamool ties, have reduced the list of sitting Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MPs to 17. According to sources, Trinamool is taking a long hard look at this list.
The fate of few MPs such as Gobinda Naskar, Haji Nurul, Sucharu Haldar, Tapas Pal and Dinesh Trivedi has become uncertain. Sources claimed Saugata Roy (who won by a mere 2.1% votes in 2009) isn't keen to contest again from Dum Dum and has sought for a "change." These likely changes in the list of 17, in addition to 24 more Lok Sabha seats Trinamool intends to contest, will ensure a sizeable number of first timers in its candidate list.
Mamata is also keen on accommodating those candidates who lost the 2009 Lok Sabha polls by a slender margin. For instance, Trinamool candidate from Balurghat Biplab Mitra, who lost by only 5,000 votes, may be offered a ticket for the coming Lok Sabha polls. Apart from Mitra, two others - Dipak Kumar Ghosh in Midnapore (who lost by less than 5%) and Shantiram Mahato in Purulia (who also lost by around 5% votes) - may be given a chance to contest the polls.
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| First list of candidates for Lok Sabha elections 2014 | ||
| West Bengal | ||
| S.No. | Name of the Constituency | Name of the Candidate |
| 1 | Coochbehar | Renuka Sinha |
| 2 | Alipurduars | Dasharath Tirkey |
| 3 | Jalpaiguri | Bijoy Bhusan Barman |
| 4 | Darjeeling | Baichung Bhutia |
| 5 | Raiganj | Satyarajan Dasmunshi |
| 6 | Balurghat | Arpita Ghosh |
| 7 | Maldaha Uttar | Soumitra Roy |
| 8 | Maldaha Dakshin | Dr. Moajjim Hussein |
| 9 | Jangipur | Haji Nurul Islam |
| 10 | Baharampur | Indranil Sen |
| 11 | Murshidabad | Mohammad Ali |
| 12 | Krishnanagar | Tapas Pal |
| 13 | Ranaghat | Saugata Barman |
| 14 | Bongaon | Kapil Krishna Thakur |
| 15 | Barrackpore | Dinesh Trivedi |
| 16 | Dum dum | Saugata Roy |
| 17 | Barasat | Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar |
| 18 | Basirhat | Idrish Ali |
| 19 | Joynagar | Pratima Naskar |
| 20 | Mathurapur | CM Jatua |
| 21 | Diamond Harbour | Abhishek Bandyopadhyay |
| 22 | Jadavpur | Sugata Bose |
| 23 | Kolkata Dakshin | Subrata bakshi |
| 24 | Kolkata Uttar | Sudip Bandyopadhyay |
| 25 | Howrah | Prasun Banerjee |
| 26 | Uluberia | Sultan Ahmed |
| 27 | Serampore | Kalyan Kumar Banerjee |
| 28 | Hooghly | Dr Ratna De |
| 29 | Arambagh | Aparupa Poddar /Afreen Ali |
| 30 | Tamluk | Suvendu Adhikari |
| 31 | Kanthi | Sisir Adhikari |
| 32 | Ghatal | Deepak Adhikary |
| 33 | Jhargram | Dr Uma Soren |
| 34 | Medinipur | Sandhya Roy |
| 35 | Purulia | Dr. Mriganko Mahato |
| 36 | Bankura | Moonmoon Sen |
| 37 | Bishnupur | Soumitra Khan |
| 38 | Bardhaman – Purba | Sunil Mandal |
| 39 | Bardhaman - Durgapur | Dr. Mumtaz Sanghamita |
| 40 | Asansol | Dola Sen |
| 41 | Bolpur | Anupam Hazra |
| 42 | Birbhum | Satabdi Roy |
| Tripura | ||
| S.No. | Name of Constituency | Name of Candidate |
| 1 | Tripura East | Vikuram Riyang |
| 2 | Tripura West | Ratan Chakraborty |
| Manipur: | ||
| S.No. | Name of Constituency | Name of Candidate |
| 1 | Manipur Valley | Sarangthem Manobi Singh |
| 2 | Manipur Hills | Kim Gangte |
| Jharkhand | ||
| S.No. | Name of Constituency | Name of Candidate |
| 1 | Ranchi | Bandhu Tirkey |
| 2 | Lohardanga | Chamra Linda |
Source: Times of India