Sitting MPs, West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar, union ministers Nisith Pramanik and Shantanu Thakur are among the many 195 candidates who featured within the first listing of nominees introduced by the BJP for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

Whereas there are 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, candidates of 20 have been introduced.

Following are the important thing BJP candidates from the state:

*Cooch Behar Lok Sabha Seat – Nisith Pramanik* As soon as a Trinamool Congress youth chief from the North Bengal district of Cooch Behar, 38-year-old Nisith Pramanik jumped ship to the BJP in March 2019 and trumped his former celebration’s well-entrenched chief Paresh Adhikary with over 54,000 votes within the normal elections from the Cooch Behar (SC) seat which occurred two months later.

In July 2021, Pramanik grew to become the junior residence minister within the twin Union ministries of Dwelling Affairs in addition to Youth Affairs and Sports activities following a cupboard reshuffle through the time period of the second Modi authorities.

On the time of his assuming cost of his ministries, Pramanik earned the excellence of being the youngest minister within the Union cupboard.

Pramanik’s nationality, nevertheless, created a dust-up nearly instantly after Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP Ripun Bora accused Pramanik of being a Bangladeshi nationwide and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to research his nationality.

*Alipurduars Lok Sabha Seat – Manoj Tigga* A BJP MLA from the Madarihat (ST) constituency of West Bengal’s Alipurduar district in two back-to-back state polls of 2016 and 2021, Manoj Tigga at present serves because the celebration’s chief whip within the Bengal Meeting. In 2016, Tigga managed to swing the Madarihat seat from the recognized fortress of the Left Entrance associate RSP which held the constituency for an unbroken 42 years.

Tigga changed BJP’s sitting MP John Barla within the North Bengal seat of Alipurduar in his candidacy for the upcoming normal elections. Barla, the sitting Union minister of state for minority affairs, was by the way among the many first BJP leaders in Bengal to demand a separate state carved out of North Bengal alleging underdevelopment and indifference of the Mamata Banerjee authorities in direction of the area.

*Balurghat Lok Sabha seat – Sukanta Majumdar* Sukanta Majumdar, the present president of the West Bengal BJP and a first-time MP, secured victory within the Balurghat Lok Sabha seat in 2019. He gained by about 33,000 votes, clinching 45 per cent of the overall votes solid.

Earlier than his foray into politics, Majumdar served as a professor of Botany on the College of Gour Banga in West Bengal.

Majumdar, who holds a PhD in Botany, has been related to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) since his teenage years. He was assigned to the Bengal BJP in 2014, marking his transition into energetic political involvement. He was appointed because the state unit president of the BJP in September 2021.

*Bongaon (SC) Lok Sabha seat – Shantanu Thakur.* Shantanu Thakur, a outstanding chief of the Matua neighborhood, entered politics simply earlier than the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He secured victory within the Bongaon (SC) Lok Sabha seat, which has a major Matua inhabitants, by a powerful margin of 1,11,594 votes, capturing round 48 per cent of the overall votes solid.

Identified for his vocal assist of the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA), Thakur was appointed because the Union Minister of State for the Ministry of Ports, Transport, and Waterways in a cupboard reshuffle in July 2019.

He’s a key determine within the All India Matua Mahasangha and comes from a political household; his father, Manjul Krishna Thakur, is a former TMC minister, and his brother, Subrata Thakur, serves as a BJP MLA within the West Bengal Legislative Meeting.

*Kanthi Lok Sabha seat- Soumendu Adhikari* Soumendu Adhikari, a two-time TMC MP representing Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency, has distanced himself from the celebration since his brother, Suvendu Adhikari, joined the BJP simply earlier than the 2021 meeting elections.

His father, Sisir Adhikari, was a three-time TMC MP from the Kanthi Lok Sabha seat. Nevertheless, he too has stored his distance from the celebration following his son Suvendu’s defection.

Coming from a household with a powerful political background, Soumendu beforehand served because the chairman of the Kanthi Municipality and as a TMC MLA within the West Bengal Legislative Meeting.

He grew to become an MP via a by-election for the Tamluk parliamentary seat after Suvendu resigned to affix the West Bengal cupboard below the TMC authorities. Kanthi is among the 22 Lok Sabha seats, which the BJP misplaced in 2019.

*Hooghly Lok Sabha Seat – Locket Chatterjee* A sitting MP from the Hooghly Lok Sabha seat, actor-turned-politician Locket Chatterjee snatched the constituency from Trinamool Congress’s Dr Ratna De (Nag) in 2019 and positioned her celebration as a formidable drive in that district in opposition to the state’s ruling dispensation.

Chatterjee, recognized for her outspoken and fiery public manner, had beforehand served because the president of the Mahila Morcha of her celebration’s West Bengal unit and is at present functioning because the celebration’s state normal secretary.

Chatterjee forayed into politics by holding palms of the Trinamool Congress however switched to the BJP in 2015. She contested the state Meeting polls twice, first from Mayureshwar in 2016 after which from Chinsurah in 2021, however misplaced on each events to the TMC.

*Asansol Lok Sabha seat – Pawan Singh* Bhojpuri actor and singer Pawan Singh appears to be a shock nomination for the largely Hindi-speaking voters of the coal mine belt of Asansol in West Burdwan district. For the previous few years, although, the seat has been represented by celebrities from non-political domains. Former BJP chief and crooner Babul Supriyo gained the seat twice in 2014 and in 2019.

Following Supriyo’s defection to the TMC, the seat is at present represented by actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha of the Trinamool.

(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)

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