Harbour, Professor Saugata Roy will contest from Dum Dum, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar will contest from Barasat, Mala Roy and Sudip Bandyopadhyay will contest from Kolkata South and Kolkata North. Kalyan Bandyopadhyay will contest from Srirampur while Prasun Banerjee, former India football skipper will contest from Howrah.
Brushing aside all speculation that she will not be given ticket, Mohua Moitra will contest from Krishnagar. Partha Bhowmick, state minister for Irrigation and Waterways department will fight from Barrackpore in place of Arjun Singh. Four MLAs who joined TMC from BJP have been given tickets. Biplab Mitra will take on BJP’s state president Sukanta Mazumdar in Balurghat. Krishna Kalyani will contest from Raigunj, Biswajit Das from Bongaon and Mukutmani Adhikari will contest from Ranaghat. Prakash Chik Baraik, Rajya Sabha MP will contest from Alipurduar. Jagadish Chandra Basunia will contest for the first time from Cooch Bihar.
Shantiram Mahato, former state minister who had lost by a slim margin in the 2021 Assembly election will contest from Purulia. Arup Chakraborty, sitting MLA from Taldangra, will contest from Bankura. Gopal Lama will contest from Darjeeling.
Trinamul Congress IT head Debangshu Bhattacharya from Tamluk. Mitali Bag will contest from Arambag, replacing Aparupa Poddar. Kalipada Soren, who was recently awarded Bangabibhusan, will contest from Jhargram. Abu Taher Khan will contest from Murshidabad. Shahnewaz Ali Rehan will contest from Malda South. Prasun Bandyopadhyay, former IPS officer, will contest from Malda North. Dr Sharmila Sarkar, a teacher in Calcutta Medical College and Hospital will contest from Burdwan East. Sajda Ahmed will contest from Uleberia.
Pratima Mondol and Bapi Halder will contest from Jainagar and Mathurapur constituencies respectively. Haji Nurul Islam will contest from Basirhat Lok Sabha seat. Sujata Khan will contest against Saumitra Khan, her former husband, from Bishnupur