Will take PM Modi only 2 minutes to cool down Bengal...: BJP warns TMC on Sandeshkhali violence
ANI. The BJP on Saturday announced 20 out of 42 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal. The candidates were announced in wake of PM Modi's mega development push in the TMC bastion.
The party is aiming to surpass its 2019 tally of 18 seats in the state. Amit Shah earlier in a rally in Birbhum had set a target of winning 35 seats in the state, which was once a Left bastion for 34 years before Mamata Banerjee came to power. Here's the list on BJP West Bengal candidates: 1.
Nisith Pramanik - Cooch Behar (SC) 2. Manoj Tigga - Alipurduars (ST) 3. Dr.
Sukanta Majumdar - Balurghat 4. Khagen Murmu - Maldaha Uttar 5. Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury - Maldaha Dakshin 6.
Dr. Nirmal Kumar Saha - Baharampur 7. Shri Gauri Shankar Ghosh - Murshidabad 8.
Jagannath Sarkar - Ranaghat (SC) 9. Shantanu Thakur - Bangaon (SC) 10. Dr.
Ashok Kandari - Joynagar (SC) 11. Dr. Anirban Ganguly - Jadavpur 12.
Dr. Rathin Chakraborty - Howrah 13. Locket Chatterjee - Hooghly 14.
Soumendu Adhikari - Kanthi 15. Hiranmay Chattopadhyay - Ghatal 16. Jyotirmay Singh Mahato - Purulia 17.
Dr. Shubash Sarkar - Bankura 18. Soumitra Khan - Bishnupur 19.
Pawan Singh - Asansol 20. Priya Saha - Bolpur (SC) The BJP has left no stone unturned to corner Mamata Banerjee over several issues, the latest being the violence in North 24 Parganas district's Sandeshkhali town. PM Modi hit out at the Bengal CM over Shahjahan saying the party was protecting the TMC leader and the police had to arrest him only after the BJP leaders exerted pressure on the government.
“The country is seeing what Trinamool Congress has done with the sisters of Sandeshkhali. The whole country is angry. The soul of Raja Ram Mohan Roy must have been pained by what happened in
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