West Bengal polls: Congress releases list of 9 more candidates

The Congress on Wednesday announced its second list of nine candidates and one replacement for the West Bengal Assembly polls, taking the total number of candidates declared by the party to 293.

The Congress, which is going solo in the polls to the 294-member Assembly, named Prem Chowdhury in place of Sanjay Sarkar from the Gazole (SC) constituency.

The party fielded Mrinmoy Sarkar from Alipurduars, Guddi Riaz from Islampur, Md. Mahatab from Farakka, Monoj Chakraborty from Sagardighi, Mohd. Saharuddin Seikh from Beldanga, Quazi Abdur Rahim from Baduria, Angshuman Roy from Ashoknagar, Subhankar Sarkar from Sreerampur and Pranab Kumar Mahapatra from Patashpur.