West Bengal Assembly By-Elections 2024: TMC Announces Candidates for Bypolls in State; Check Names of Candidates
Supti Pandey, the widow of former TMC MLA Sadhan Pandey, has been fielded from Maniktala seat in Kolkata, while Madhuparna Thakur has been nominated from Matua-dominated Bagda seat.
Kolkata, June 14: The ruling Trinamool Congress on Friday announced candidates for the July 10 by-elections to four assembly seats in West Bengal. The Mamata Banerjee-led party has nominated Krishna Kalyani from Raiganj seat and Mukut Mani Adhikari from Ranaghat-Dakshin constituency.
Supti Pandey, the widow of former TMC MLA Sadhan Pandey, has been fielded from Maniktala seat in Kolkata, while Madhuparna Thakur has been nominated from Matua-dominated Bagda seat. Assembly By-Elections 2024: BJP Announces Candidates for Bypolls in Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand; Check Names of Candidates.
TMC Announces Candidates for Bypolls
Raiganj and Ranaghat assembly segments fell vacant after Kalyani and Adhikari, both BJP MLAs, switched over to the TMC and unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls. Assembly By-Elections 2024 Schedule Announced by Election Commission to Fill 13 Vidhan Sabha Seats, Check Polling and Result Dates.
The Maniktala seat fell vacant after the death of Sadhan Pande in 2022. Bagda's sitting BJP MLA Biswajit Das had switched over to the TMC and unsuccessfully contested from the Bangaon Lok Sabha seat.
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