Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, a 5-term Congress MP from Behrampore, will contest from the Behrampore Assembly seat in Murshidabad district
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The Congress on Sunday (March 29, 2026) fielded a number of heavyweights for the West Bengal Assembly election 2026, along with venerable event leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and venerable Rajya Sabha MP Mausam Benazir Noor.
The event, which has decided to contest the entire 294 seats in the Roar, announced candidates for 284 of them, successfully ending a decade-long electoral idea with the Communist Birthday party of India (Marxist)-led Left Entrance, which has allied with the Indian Secular Entrance (ISF).
Mr. Chowdhury, a 5-term Congress MP from Behrampore, will contest from the Behrampore Assembly seat in Murshidabad district. Ms. Noor, a venerable Trinamool Congress MP who made a comeback to Congress in January 2026, has been fielded from the Malatipur constituency in Malda district. She hails from the family of historical Congress leader and venerable Union Minister A.B.A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury.
The nomination of Mr. Chowdhury and Ms. Noor has made the competition difficult in central West Bengal, in particular in Malda and Murshidabad districts, the set apart the Trinamool Congress is going thru stress from regional avid gamers esteem Humayun Kabir’s Aam Janata Unnayan Birthday party (AJUP). Within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool Congress candidate and venerable cricketer Yusuf Pathan defeated Mr. Chowdhury in Behrampore by a margin of 70,000 votes. The 2026 assembly election is an different for Mr. Chowdhury to re-set apart his political dominance in the gap.
Diversified candidates consist of Rohan Mitra, son of venerable MP and standard Congress leader Somen Mitra. A total secretary of the Roar unit, he’ll contest from Ballygunge. Frail MLA Ali Imran Ramz, popularly most incessantly called Victor, has been fielded from Uttar Dinajpur’s Chakulia. Mr. Ramz was once earlier connected to the All India Ahead Bloc.
The event has fielded formative years leader Ashutosh Chatterjee from Rashbehari. Congress South Kolkata district president Pradeep Prasad will contest from Bhabanipur, the set apart Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Suvendu Adhikari are in the fray. Among a form of candidates are Mohit Sengupta from Raiganj, Asif Mehboob from Chanchal, Mostaq Alam from Harishchandrapur and Amal Acharya—who lately joined the Congress from the Trinamool Congress—from Itahar. In Nandigram, the event has nominated formative years leader Sheikh Zariatul Hossain.
Candidates for 10 seats have not been announced. In accordance with event sources, capabilities from a number of MLAs denied tickets by the Trinamool Congress are being scrutinised.
Polling for 152 seats will likely be held in the primary segment on April 23, with nominations foundation on Monday. The 2d and closing segment of polling will likely be held on April 29.
Printed – March 29, 2026 10:34 pm IST
