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In Bengal, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar, and Union ministers Nisith Pramanik and Shantanu Thakur are among the 195 candidates who featured in the first list of nominees announced by the BJP. While there are 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, the party announced the names of 20 candidates.
Once a Trinamool Congress (TMC) youth leader from the north Bengal district of Cooch Behar, the 38-year-old Pramanik jumped ship to the BJP in March 2019 and trumped his former party’s well-entrenched leader Paresh Adhikary by over 54,000 votes in the general elections from the Cooch Behar (SC) seat two months later.
In July 2021, Pramanik became the junior home minister in the dual Union ministries of home affairs as well as youth affairs and sports, following a cabinet reshuffle during the Modi government’s second term.
A BJP MLA from the Madarihat (ST) constituency of north Bengal’s Alipurduar district in two back-to-back state polls of 2016 and 2021, Manoj Tigga currently serves as the party’s chief whip in the Bengal Assembly, having replaced sitting MP John Barla in Alipurduar in his candidacy for the upcoming general elections.
After the BJP announced Majumdar’s candidature from the Balurghat constituency, the party’s current president of West Bengal and a first-time MP expressed confidence that the selected candidates will gift more seats to the party.
First list of Kerala BJP candidates:
Palakkad: C. Krishnakumar
Thrissur: Suresh Gopi
Alappuzha: Sobha Surendran
Pathanamthitta: Anil Antony
Thiruvananthapuram: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Kozhikode: MT Ramesh
Malappuram: Dr Abdul Salam
Ponnani: Nivedita Subrahmanian
Attingal: V Muralidharan
Vadakara: Praful Krishna
Kasaragod: ML Ashwini
Kannur: C Raghunath
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