India, March 16 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday released its first list of 144 candidates for the West Bengal assembly polls from Delhi, fielding Suvendu Adhikari against chief minister Mamata Banerjee at her Bhwanipore constituency in south Kolkata as well as his Nandigram seat in East Midnapore district where he defeated her in 2021.

The development came a day after Adhikari, the leader of the opposition (LoP) in the Bengal legislative assembly, told media persons that Nandigram is the seat he would like to contest but will follow the party's decision.

"Nandigram is where my heart is. I would always contest from Nandigram but the party makes its own decisions," he said in Bengal.

While most of the BJP's sitting legislators we...