Lok Sabha polls 2019: Trinamool Congress' election list out, 41% women

The TMC also upped the glamour content among its candidates

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday released its list of candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal, shuffling around half the incumbents and dropping eight sitting members of Parliament (MPs). About 41 per cent of the candidates are women, said TMC chief Mamata Banerjee.

The surprise drop-outs included party general secretary, Subrata Bakshi, and Sugata Bose, who hails from the family of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Banerjee, current chief minister of West Bengal, said Bakshi was keen to focus on party work.

Bose, on the other hand, had not got clearance from Harvard University, where he is Gardiner Professor