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Mamata fields Yusuf Pathan in Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's seat; here is the full list of candidates

Mamata said TMC will contest elections alone in Bengal

Mamata Banerjee said 'we will never allow BJP to bring NRC or open detention camps in Bengal' | Salil Bera

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced names of 42 Trinamool Congress candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Big names in the list include cricketer Yusuf Pathan and TMC MP Mahua Moitra.

Surprisingly, Pathan will contest from Baharampur constituency, which is the sitting seat of Congress state chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. Both Congress and TMC are allies in the INDIA bloc. Congress is yet to reveal if Chowdhury will recontest from the same seat where he had won the previous five times.

TMC has renominated Mahua Motira from Krishnanagar seat. Abhishek Banerjee is contesting on TMC ticket from Diamond Harbour. Coming to Basirhat, where Sandeshkhali is situated, the party fielded former MP Haji Nurul Islam replacing sitting MP Nusrat Jahan.

Mamata said her party is in talks with Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav for contesting in one seat from Uttar Pradesh. She said TMC will contest elections alone in Bengal, adding that her party will also fight in Assam and Meghalaya.

The Bengal CM said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must must cross-check facts with officials before making allegations against Bengal.

Addressing a rally in Kolkata, the Trinamool Congress supremo said, "We will never allow BJP to bring NRC or open detention camps in Bengal."

In a veiled attack against ex-Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay who joined the BJP last week, she said, "I respect judiciary but a few judges worked as BJP agents."

Check out the full list of TMC candidates in all 42 seats in West Bengal:

Alipurduar: Prakash Chik Baraik

Asansol: Shatrughan Sinha

Baharampur: Yusuf Pathaan

Balurghat: Biplab Mitra

Bankura: Arup Chakraborty

Bangaon: Biswajit Das

Bardhaman North: Dr. Sharmila Sarkar

Bardhaman-Durgapur: Kirti Azad

Barrackpore: Partha Bhowmik

Barasat: Kakali Ghosh Dastidar

Basirhat: Haji Nurul Islam

Birbhum: Shatabdi Roy

Bishnupur: Sujata Khan

Bolpur: Asit Kumar Mal

Coochbehar: Jagdish Chandra Basuniya

Darjeeling: Gopal Lama

Diamond Harbour: Abhishek Banerjee

Dum Dum: Sougata Roy

Hoogly: Rachana Banerjee

Howrah: Prasun Bandyopadhyay

Jadavpur: Sayoni Ghosh

Jalpaiguri: Nirmal Chandra Roy

Jangipur: Khalilur Rehman

Joynagar: Pratima Mondal

Krishnanagar: Mahua Moitra

Kolkata South: Mala Roy

Kolkata North: Sudip Bandyopadhyay

Malda North: Prasun Banerjee

Malda South: Shahnawaz Ali Raihan

Mathurapur: Bapi Haldar

Medinipur: June Malia

Murshidabad: Abu Teher Khan

Purulia: Shantiram Mahato

Raigunj: Krishna Kalyani

Ranaghat: Mukutmani Adhikari

Srirampore: Kalyan Banerjee

Uluberia: Sajdah Ahmed