BJP faces protests in West Bengal over LS polls' candidates list

Protests erupted in various parts of West Bengal after the BJP, in its first list of 28 candidates, nominated veterans and defectors from the ruling Trinamool Congress to take on Mamata Banerjee's party in the state.
With old-timers being overlooked in favour of turncoats and newcomers, protesters gathered outside BJP offices in various parts of the state and, in some places, put up posters of rejected ticket aspirants outside the offices.
BJP state vice-president Raj Kamal Pathak submitted his resignation after he was denied a party ticket.
The BJP, which bagged two Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal in the 2014 elections, has been targeting 23 of the state's 42 constituencies.

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