Kolkata, June 17: BJP on Monday announced the names of its candidates for the Assembly bypoll at four seats in West Bengal, days after ruling Trinamul Congress and the Left Front fielded it's choices. Three of them are new faces.
At Raiganj in North Dinajpur, Manas Kumar Ghosh has been made BJP candidate while Manoj Kumar Biswas has got a ticket to fight at Ranaghat South in Nadia. At Bagda in North 24 Parganas, Binay Kumar Biswas will fight against Madhuparna Thakur of TMC.
All the three seats went to the BJP last time. In Maniktala of North Kolkata, BJP once again fielded former footballer Kalyan Choubey, who is the AIFF chief and had lost to late TMC minister Sadhan Pande in the 2021 Assembly Election.
Interestingly, Mr Choubey had moved the Calcutta High Court challenging his defeat to the TMC heavyweight but withdrew his petition almost after three years leading to the schedule of the bypoll.
This time, the former goalkeeper however added another surname, Bhattacharya, which belongs to his mother Sandhya, to his name to fight TMC candidate Supti Pande, also the wife of the late minister. The surprise was found in the party's candidate list.
