West Bengal elections: Congress, fighting alone, released the first list of 284 candidates.

New Delhi, 29 March. The Congress, which has decided to contest alone without any alliance in the West Bengal Assembly elections to be held in two phases next month, on Sunday released its first list of 284 candidates.

Ticket to Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary from Baharampur

Former party state unit president Adhir Ranjan Choudhary has been fielded from Baharampur and former Trinamool Congress MP Mausam Noor has been fielded from Maltipur. The party has given tickets to Madhap Rai from Darjeeling, Abdul Hannan from Sujapur, Susmita Biswas from Dum Dum, Gautam Bhattacharya from Diamond Harbour, Souvik Mukherjee from Asansol South and Prosenjit Puitandi from Asansol North.

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The announcement of Congress candidates came a day after the party’s top leadership held detailed deliberations on the list of candidates during the Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party president Rahul Gandhi, All India Congress Committee general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal and leaders from West Bengal attended the meeting.

Among the leaders who attended the meeting are former party West Bengal unit chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Central Election Committee (CEC) members – Ambika Soni, Madhusudan Mistry, Salman Khurshid, TS Singhdev, KJ George, PL Punia and Ami Yagnik. Apart from these, Ghulam Ahmed Mir, in-charge of West Bengal affairs in AICC, was also present in the meeting.

Mir had told reporters that the party had received 2,500 applications for 294 assembly seats. West Bengal Assembly elections will be held in two phases on April 23 and 29. The date for counting of votes has been fixed for May 4.