In Bengal, the BJP has fielded former chief economic adviser Ashok Lahiri from the Alipurduar seat, Union minister Babul Supriyo from Tollygunge, and Swapan Dasgupta from the Tarakeshwar.
BJP has fielded Metro Man E Sreedharan from Palakkad
The BJP on Sunday announced its star-studded list of candidates for the assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam.
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In Bengal, the BJP has fielded former chief economic adviser Ashok Lahiri from the Alipurduar seat, Union minister Babul Supriyo from Tollygunge, and Swapan Dasgupta from the Tarakeshwar.
Actor-turned-politician and sitting MP Locket Chatterjee has been fielded from Chunchura. Several actors, who recently joined the BJP, have also secured their names in the list. A similar trend was visible in Kerala, where the BJP fielded ‘metroman’ E Sreedharan from Palakkad and former Union Minister KJ Alphons from the Kanjirappally seat.
In Tamil Nadu, it announced actor-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar as its candidate from the Thousand Lights Assembly seat. In Assam, Hasinara Khatun has been fielded from Baghbar and Suman Haripriya from Hajo Assembly constituency.
2nd DMK MLA joins BJP ahead of polls
Weeks before assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, DMK MLA P Saravanan joined the BJP on Sunday, protesting what he called the ‘dominance’ and ‘silent torture’ by the district-level officer-bearers of the party. Saravanan, representing Tirupparankundram constituency in Madurai region, is the second DMK MLA after Ku Ka Selvam to join the BJP.
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