New Delhi, March 11 -- Snubbing the INDIA alliance, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) named candidates on all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. The list of the 42 candidates was announced by TMC leader and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Brigade Ground in Kolkata. Banerjee said that with the blessings of the people, we declare our decision to contest elections independently in the state.

The big names in the fray are Mahua Moitra from Krishnanagar, Saayoni Ghosh from Jadavpur, Gopal Lama from Darjeeling, Abhishek Banerjee from Diamond Harbour, actor Shatrughan Sinha from Asansol and former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan from Berhampore.

Earlier in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the TMC had won 22 seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party (...