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TMC announces candidates list for KMC elections

| | Mar 09, 2015, at 05:52 am
Kolkata, Mar 8 (IBNS): The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday announced its list of candidates for the upcoming Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) polls.

After a meeting in West Bengal CM and  TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee's house here, the party officially announced its list and named Sovan Chatterjee as the Mayoral candidate for the polls.

The party has named the candidates for the 144 wards in the KMC area.

Out of the total number candidates, 66 are women while 20 belong to minority communities.

Chatterjee will participate from ward 131.

Mala Roy and Arun Das, who recently joined the TMC from the Indian National Congress (INC) , will fight the polls from wards 88 and 55 respectively.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

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