No INDIA in Bengal, TMC provides tickets for all 42 seats, stuns Congress

KOLKATA: Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress revealed on Sunday prospects for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, getting IPL franchise KKR’s retired star all-rounder Yusuf Pathan to pad up for his political launching. The celebration consisted of 25 other fresh faces and dropped 5 sitting MPs from the group. It has actually likewise settled the veteran-versus-new dispute by keeping numerous old warhorses. Expelled Krishnanagar MP Mahua Moitra includes amongst the 16 from TMC’s winning 2019 line-up to be renominated. Pathan, who played 7 seasons for KKR and belonged to the 2007 T20 and 2011 ODI World Cup-winning groups, will object to the Behrampore seat versus a perhaps powerful challenger in state Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. TMC blames the latter for INDIA bloc breaking down in Bengal. Pathan, 1983 ODI World Cup winner Kirti Azad figures in the list. Azad, a previous three-time BJP MP, has actually been fielded in Burdwan-Durgapur. Stars Mimi Chakraborty and Nussrat Jahan are amongst the 5 who didn’t make it – the previous had actually revealed weeks ago that she was finished with politics – however TMC ‘skill spotters’ have actually made certain it will not miss out on the flavour of showbiz in its politics. Rachana Banerjee, manufacturer of the television program ‘Didi No 1’, in which Mamata appeared a couple of days earlier, is the prospect for Hooghly. Star and TMC state youth wing president Saayoni Ghosh changes Mimi in Jadavpur, Haji Nurul Islam, MLA from Haroa and ex-Basirhat MP, has actually been re-nominated from his old Lok Sabha constituency, changing Nussrat, who was criticised within the celebration for not going to Sandeshkhali throughout the
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