Kolkata, Mar 21 (UNI) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced the first list of 28 candidates for the coming Lok Sabha election in West Bengal.
The candidates are John Barla from Alipurduars (ST), Deboshree Chaudhury from Raiganj,Anupam Hazra from Jadavpur, Chandra Kumar Bose form Kolkata Dakshin,Rahul Sinha from Kolkata Uttar,Dilip Ghosh from Medinipur, Tapan Roy from Arambag, Sayantan Basu from Basirhat, Jayanta Ray from Jalpaiguri, Sukanta Majumdar from Balurghat, Nisith Pramanik from Cooch Behar, Khagen Murmu from Maldaha Uttar, Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury from Maldaha Dakshin, Kalyan Chowbey from Krishnanagar, Arjun Singh from Barrackpore, Samik Bhattacharya from Dumdum, Dr Mrinal Kanthi Debnath from Barasat, Ashok Kandan from Jaynagar (SC), Shyamaprasad Halder from Mathurapur (SC), Debajit Sarkar from Serampore, Locket Chaterjee from Hooghly, Siddarth Naskar from Tamluk, Bharati Ghosh from Ghatal, Dr Kunar Hembram from Jhargram (ST), Soumitra Kha from Bishnupur, Paresh Chandra Das from Bardhaman Purba (SC), Babul Supriyo from Asansol and Dudh Kumar Mondal from Birbhum.
Lok Sabha elections will begin on April 11 and continue for over a month till May 19 across seven phases, followed by counting of votes on May 23.