Overview

• Trinamool Congress announces candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, indicating no alliance with Congress for the upcoming elections.
• Congress expresses disappointment, emphasizing its desire for a respectable seat-sharing agreement with Trinamool in West Bengal.
• Former cricketers Yusuf Pathan and Kirti Azad among new faces introduced by Trinamool in its candidate list for the Lok Sabha polls.
• A unique contest emerges in Bengal as a divorced couple, Sujata Mondal and Soumitra Khan, are set to face off in the Lok Sabha election.
• Trinamool drops MP Nusrat Jahan from contesting the Basirhat Lok Sabha seat amid the Sandeshkhali row, fielding Nurul Islam instead.