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KOLKATA: The All India Congress Committee announced a total of 13 candidates for the 60 assembly seats going to polls in the first two phases. The list is packed with new faces, other than sitting Baghmundi MLA Nepal Mahato. Congress has fielded Partha Pratim Banerjee for the Purulia seat after outgoing MLA Sudip Mukherjee left Congress and joined BJP.
Pradesh Congress leaders will have another round of talks with Left Front leaders on Sunday to sort out “teething problems” over seat-sharing in north Bengal. Congress is not in a mood to share seats with Abbas Siddiqui’s Indian Secular Front (ISF) in Malda and Murshidabad.