In the race up to the Lok Sabha elections that are scheduled to be held in seven phases from April 11 to May 19, the BJP released its first list that includes 182 candidates. The party's central election committee (CEC) met on Wednesday evening as a part of its deliberations to consolidate the candidate list.

To contend against chief minister Mamata Banerjee's TMC and a dodgy Congress-CPI (M) probable alliance, BJP has released its first list for the state of West Bengal.

The grand nephew of Subhash Chandra Bose, Chandra Kumar Bose is set to fight the South Kolkata seat, and is the new face of BJP in the the Mamata Banerjee-led state.

Here is the list:

Maldaha Uttar - Khagen Murmu

Maldaha Dakshin- Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury

Krishnanagar- Kalyan Chowbey

Barrackpur- Arjun Singh

Dum Dum- Samik Bhattacharya

Barasat- Dr. Mrinal Kanthi Debnath

Basirhat- Sayantan Basu

Jaynagar- Dr. Ashok Kandari

Mathurapur- Shyamaprasad Halder

Jadavpur- Anupam Hazra

Kolkata Dakshin- Chandra Kumar Bose

Kolkata Uttar- Rahul Sinha

Serampore- Debajit Sarkar

Hooghly- Locket Chaterjee

Arambagh- Tapan Roy

Tamluk- Siddharth Naskar

Ghatal- Bharati Ghosh

Jhargram- Dr. Kunar Hembram

Medinipur- Dilip Ghosh

Bishnupur- Soumitra Kha

Bardhaman Purba- Paresh Chandra Das

Asansol- Babul Supriyo

Birbhum- Dudh Kumar Mondal

Coochbehar- Nisith Pramanik

Alipurduars- John Barla

Jalpaiguri- Jayanta Ray

Raiganj- Deboshree Chaudhary

Balurghar- Dr. Sukanta Majumdar

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On Wednesday, the party held its the third CEC meeting which was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and found party president Amit Shah, and Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley in attendance.

The Congress has already announced candidates for 146 Lok Sabha constituencies so far. The deadline to file the nominations is March 25.

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