Full list of candidates going to polls in West Bengal in second phase of Lok Sabha election 2019

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Three Lok Sabha constituencies in north Bengal - Jalpaiguri (SC), Darjeeling and Raiganj will go to the polls in the second phase of elections on Thursday.

The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal and the BJP are the main contenders in the three seats which will see a four-cornered contest between the two parties, the Congress and the Left Front.

The constituencies saw high profile campaigning by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, state Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, BJP president Amit Shah and Congress president Rahul Gandhi who raised a plethora of issues ranging from corruption to communalism, NRC to chit fund scams and development to security.

Trinamool Congress has fielded Bijoy Chandra Barman against BJP's Jayanta Kumar Roy in Jalpaiguri constituency, where Moni Kumar Darnal of Congress and Bhagirath Chandra Roy of CPI(M) are also in the fray.

In Darjeeling, the TMC nominated Amar Singh Rai who will fight against Raju Bisht of BJP, Sankar Malakar of Congress and Saman Pathak of CPI(M). TMC has nominated Kanhaiyalal Agarwal in Raiganj seat against Md Salim of CPI(M), Deepa Dasmunshi of Congress and Debashree Chowdhury of BJP.

The Raiganj Lok Sabha seat, which was once a Congress stronghold, will see a four-cornered contest. This seat along with Murshidabad had been the bone of contention between Congress and the CPI-M in the futile seat-sharing talks.

Full list of candidates going to polls in West Bengal in second phase of Lok Sabha election 2019:

DARJEELING

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	AMAR SINGH RAI	All India Trinamool Congress
2	RAJU BISTA	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	SUDIP MANDAL	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	Sankar Malakar	Indian National Congress
5	SAMAN PATHAK	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
6	CHRISTOPHER GAHATRAJ	Indian Democratic Republican Front
7	TANMAY DUTTA	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
8	DIPAK KUMAR ROY	Kamatapur People’s Party (United)
9	BHARAT DONG	Gorkha Rashtriya Congress
10	SUNIL PANDIT	Rashtriya Janasachetan Party (R.J.P.)
11	HARKA BAHADUR CHHETRI	All India Jana Andolan Party
12	AJAY DAHAL	Independent
13	RESEEKA CHETTRI	Independent
14	DIGBIJAY MANDAL	Independent
15	NIRODE CHANDRA ADHIKARY	Amra Bangalee
16	RAJESH SINGH	Independent

JALPAIGURI

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Dr. JAYANTA KUMAR ROY	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	JIBAN KRISHNA MAJUMDER	Bahujan Samaj Party
3	HARIBHAKTA SARDAR	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
4	BIJOY CHANDRA BARMAN	All India Trinamool Congress
5	BHAGIRATH CHANDRA ROY	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
6	MANI KUMAR DARNAL	Indian National Congress
7	BIJOY CHANDRA BARMAN	All India Trinamool Congress
8	KHUSHI RANJAN MONDAL	Amra Bangalee
9	RANJIT KUMAR ROY	Samajwadi Jan Parishad
10	SUBAL CHANDRA ROY	Kamatapur People’s Party (United)
11	SACHIMOHAN BARMAN	Independent
12	SUBHASH BISWAS	Independent
13	HAREKRISHNA SARKAR	Independent

RAIGANJ

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Agarwal Kanaialal	All India Trinamool Congress
2	Churka Murmu	Bahujan Samaj Party
3	Deepa Dasmunsi	Indian National Congress
4	Debasree Chaudhuri	Bharatiya Janata Party
5	Md. Salim	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
6	Akik Hossain Chowdhury	Kamatapur People’s Party (United)
7	Lakshman Murmu	Ambedkarite Party of India
8	Santhapan Hasdak	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
9	Advocate Anjay Debsarma	Independent
10	Kumaresh Sarkar	Independent
11	Binoy Kumar Das	Independent
12	Md. Sahajan Badsha	Independent
13	Raju Paul	Independent

The EC has deployed 194 companies of central forces in the three constituencies going to polls to cover 80 per cent of the 5,390 booths for free and fair polling.

The Lok Sabha polls are being held in seven-phases for 543 seats on April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19, and counting will be on May 23.