The BJP on Sunday announced its star-studded list of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam.
Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters, the party general secretary Arun Singh announced the names of candidates and said, in all the poll-bound states, the environment is in favour of the BJP.
The party released names of 112 candidates for Kerala, where it will be contesting in 115 out of 140 Assembly seats, 17 names for Assam and 63 candidates for the third and fourth phase of elections in West Bengal.
Kerala
State BJP chief K Surendran will contest from two constituencies - Manjeshwar in Kasaragod and Konni in Pathanamthitta, BJP national general secretary Arun Singh said while announcing the list.
Metroman E Sreedharan, who recently joined the BJP, has been fielded in Palakkad. Former state president Kummanam Rajasekharan is contesting from Nemom.
Actor Suresh Gopi is contesting from Thrissur. Former vice-chancellor of Calicut University Abdul Salam is fielded in Tirur. Former DGP Jacob Thomas will contest from Irinjalakuda and KJ Alphons will contest from Kanjirappally assembly seat, Singh said.
West Bengal
In West Bengal, the BJP has fielded former chief economic adviser to the government Ashok Lahiri from the Alipurduar seat, Union Minister Babul Supriyo from Tollygunge, and Swapan Dasgupta from the Tarakeshwar Assembly segment.
Actor-turned-politician and sitting MP Locket Chatterjee has been fielded from Chunchura and another MP Nishit Parmanik from Dinhata.
Former TMC leader Rajib Banerjee who recently joined BJP has been fielded from Domjur, Rabindranath Bhattacharya has been fielded from Singur, Indranil Das will contest from Kasba and actor Tanushree Chakraborty from Howrah Shyampur.
Also, a number of film personalities have been nominated as candidates in the high-stakes battle for West Bengal.
Tamil Nadu
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced the names of its 20 candidates and said the party will contest as an NDA partner with the AIADMK.
"In Tamil Nadu, BJP is contesting as NDA partner and we will be contesting in 20 assembly constituencies spread across all regions of the state. State president L Murugan will contest from Dharapuram. Senior leader H Raja will contest from Karaikudi," Singh said in a press conference.
Vanathi Srinivasan will contest from Coimbatore South against Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief Kamal Hassan while Khushboo Sundar will contest from Thousand Lights in Chennai.
Assam
In Assam, Hasinara Khatun has been fielded from Baghbar and Suman Haripriya from Hajo Assembly constituency. Chandra Mohan Patowary will contest from Dharmapur seat.
