Left announces candidates for 4 more seats; CPI(M) state secretary Salim to contest from Murshidabad

The Left Front on Saturday announced the names of candidates for four more Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, including Murshidabad where CPI(M) state secretary Mohammed Salim has been fielded.

The Left Front has already announced the names of candidates for 16 seats in its first list, and of them, 13 were from the CPI(M) and one each from RSP, CPI and Forward Bloc.

In the second list, apart from Salim, the Left Front named Alokesh Das of CPI(M) from Ranaghat, the party's Sukriti Ghosal in the Bardhaman-Durgapur seat and CPI(M)'s Shyamali Pradhan for the Bolpur constituency.


Left Front chairman Biman Bose said the names were decided at a meeting of the constituent parties.

Salim is a former Lok Sabha MP from Raiganj, and prior to that, he was an MP from the Kolkata North-East constituency.