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BJP announces names of ten more candidates from Bengal for LS polls

Kolkata, Mar 26 (UNI) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday announced the second list of ten candidates for the coming Lok Sabha election in West Bengal.
The candidates are Krishna Juardar Arya from Baharampur, Hamayun Kabir from Murshidabad, Dr Mukul Mani Adhikari from Ranaghat (SC), Shantanu Thakur from Bangaon (SC), Nilanjan Roy from Diamond Harbor, Rantidev Sen Gupta from Howrah, Joy Banerjee from Uluberia, Dr Debashish Samant from Kanthi, Dr Subhash Sarkar from Bankura and Ram Prashad Das from Bolpur (SC).
Earlier, the BJP declared 28 candidates in the first list. They 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.
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