West Bengal Elections | Trinamool arrays political heavyweights to defend Kolkata
The Hindu
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Eleven seats in Kolkata go to vote in the last two phases of polling in the West Bengal Assembly elections, and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has fielded political heavyweights to defend it. They include five senior Ministers in the West Bengal government, well-known sitting MLAs, and key faces of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. The State’s Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Subtrata Mukherjee, one of the seniormost politicians in West Bengal, is defending his Ballygunje Assembly seat. Former Kolkata mayor and Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim is contesting from the Kolkata Port. Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, the State’s Power Minister, is contesting from Bhawanipur, a constituency that elected Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to the State Assembly in 2011 and 2016.
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