Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday announced its list of 42 candidates fielded by the party in Bengal for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The announcement was made during the mega “Jana-Gorjan” (People’s Roar) rally held by the party at the historic Brigade ground of West Bengal.

Two former cricketers, Kirti Azad and Yusuf Pathan have made it into the list of candidates. While Kirti Azad, who was a part of India’s 1983 World Cup-winning Indian cricket team, will contest from Bardhaman-Durgapur, Yusuf Pathan has been fielded as a candidate for the Congress bastion of Bardhaman.

Bollywood veteran and Asansol MP Shatrughan Sinha will contest from his own constituency. Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra who was expelled from the Parliament is set to contest from her usual Krishnanagar seat. Abhishek Banerjee is once again set to compete from his usual Diamond Harbour seat.

Several Tollywood actors have also made it to the list of nominations released by Trinamool Congress. Actor Dev has been fielded from his usual Ghatal constituency, Rachana Banerjee has been given the Hoogly seat and Sayani Ghosh will fight from the Jadavpur seat.

Leaders of the ruling party hit out at BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the MNREGA funds. Moreover, issues such as the “Khalistani” remark allegedly passed by Suvendu Adhikari and the Prime Minister’s alleged apathy towards the Manipur issue were raked up.

Here’s the full list of candidates released by Trinamool Congress:

1. Cooch Behar (SC) - Jagadish C Basuniya

2. Alipurduar (ST) - Prakash Chik Baraik

3. Jalpaiguri (SC) - Nirmal Ch Roy

4. Darjeeling - Gopal Lama

5. Raiganj - Krishna Kalyani

6. Balurghat - Biplab Mitra

7. Malda Uttar - Prasun Banerjee

8. Malda Dakshin - Shahnawaz Ali Raihan

9. Jangipur - Khalilur Rahman

10. Berhampore - Yusuf Pathan

11. Murshidabad - Abu Taher Khan

12. Krishnanagar - Mahua Moitra

13. Ranaghat (SC) - Mukut Mani Adhikari

14. Bongaon - Biswajit Das

15. Barrackpore - Partha Bhowmick

16. Dum Dum - Prof Saugata Roy

17. Barasat - Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar

18. Basirhat - Haji Nurul Islam

19. Joynagar (SC) - Pratima Mondal

20. Mathurapur (SC) - Bapi Halder

21. Diamond Harbour - Abhishek Banerjee

22. Jadavpur - Saayoni Ghosh

23. Kolkata Dakshin - Mala Roy

24. Kolkata Uttar - Sudip Bandhopadhyay

25. Howrah - Prasun Banerjee

26. Uluberia - Sajda Ahmed

27. Serampore - Kalyan Banerjee

28. Hooghly - Rachana Banerjee

29. Arambagh (SC) - Mitali Bag

30. Tamluk - Debangshu Bhattacharya

31. Kanthi - Uttam Barik

32. Ghatal - Deepak Adhikari (Dev)

33. Jhargram (ST) - Kalipada Soren

34. Medinipur - June Malia

35. Purulia - Shantiram Mahato

36. Bankura - Arup Chakrabarty

37. Bishnupur (SC) - Sujata Mondal

38. Bardhaman Purba (SC) - Dr Sharmila Sarkar

39. Bardhaman Durgapur - Kirti Azad

40. Asansol - Shatrughan Sinha

41. Bolpur (SC) - Asit Kumar Mal

42. Birbhum - Satabdi Roy