India
oi-Deepika S
New Delhi, Mar 14: Union Minister Babul Supriyo, former Chief Economic Advisor Ashok Lahiri, Metroman E Sreedharan, film star Kushboo Sundar as well as five sitting MPs were among the BJP”s star-studded list of candidates released on Sunday for the upcoming polls in four states.
The BJP has fielded four MPs, including a Union Minister, in West Bengal, two in Kerala and its national officer bearer in Tamil Nadu. By bringing its best-known faces from these states to the electoral contest, the party has rased its states in the assembly polls.
Adressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters, party general secretary Arun Singh along with Union Ministers Babul Supriyo and Debasree Chaudhuri released the names of 63 candidates for West Bengal assembly polls, 17 candidates each for Assam and Tamil Nadu and 112 for the elections in Kerala.
Singh said the party will contest…