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The 2022 Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation election was held on 12 February 2022 to elect 41 members of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) which governs Bidhannagar, the Satellite city of the capital city of Indian state of West Bengal, Kolkata in the district of North 24 Parganas. [1]
| Poll event | Schedule |
|---|---|
| Notification date | 28 Dec, 2021 |
| Last Date for filing nomination | 3 Jan, 2022 |
| Last Date for withdrawal of nomination | 6 Jan, 2022 |
| Date of poll | 12 Feb, 2022 |
| Date of counting of votes | 14 Feb, 2022 |
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Following is a list of political parties and alliances which contested in this election:
| Party | Symbol | Alliance | No. of contesting candidates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) |  | None | 41 | |
| All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) |  | Left Front | 2 | |
| Communist Party of India (CPI) |  | 2 | ||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) |  | 35 | ||
| Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |  | None | 41 | |
| Indian National Congress (INC) |  | 29 | ||
| Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (SUCI) |  | 2 | ||
| Independents (IND) | 53 | |||
| Ward | Reservation | AITC | Left Front | BJP | INC | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | SC/ST/Women | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | |||||
| 1 | Ward No. 1 | None | AITC | PINAKI NANDI | CPI(M) | Ujjwal KANTI Paul | BJP | Ashutosh Paul | INC | Alamgir Hossain | |||||
| 2 | Ward No. 2 | Women | AITC | Rahima Bibi Mondal | CPI(M) | Susmita Fouzder | BJP | Dola Ghosh | INC | Zeba Shaheen | |||||
| 3 | Ward No. 3 | None | AITC | Aratrika Bhattacharjee | CPI(M) | Arafat Ali Mondal | BJP | Abhijit Das | INC | Monsur Ali Mondal | |||||
| 4 | Ward No. 4 | AITC | SK RAFIQUEL ISLAM l | CPI(M) | Ashim Kumar Ghosh | BJP | Abhijeet Kumar Shaw | INC | Surendra Singh | ||||||
| 5 | Ward No. 5 | Women | AITC | Nandini Banerjee | CPI(M) | Priyanka Barman | BJP | Sikha Das | INC | Sandhya Roy | |||||
| 6 | Ward No. 6 | None | AITC | Samrat Barua | CPI(M) | Debashis Hazra | BJP | Raju Singh | INC | Sk Azar Uddin | |||||
| 7 | Ward No. 7 | AITC | Debraj Chakraborty | CPI(M) | Hannan Ali Ostagar | BJP | Sanjoy Das | INC | Jamil Ahemad | ||||||
| 8 | Ward No. 8 | Women | AITC | Suparna Ghosh Paul | CPI(M) | Sathi Chakraborty | BJP | Swagata Deb | INC supports CPI(M) | ||||||
| 9 | Ward No. 9 | None | AITC | Samaraesh Chakraborty | CPI(M) | Rabin Mondal | BJP | Bhaskar Naskar | INC supports CPI(M) | ||||||
| 10 | Ward No. 10 | AITC | Pranay Kumar Ray | CPI(M) | Amarnath Guha | BJP | Amor Dutta | INC supports CPI(M) | |||||||
| 11 | Ward No. 11 | SC | AITC | Anita Biswas | CPI(M) | Debasish Kumar Naskar | BJP | Suvojit Das | INC | Sudip Mondal | |||||
| 12 | Ward No. 12 | Women | AITC | Salima Bibi Mondal | CPI(M) | Rinku Rahaman | BJP | Taniya Singha Roy | INC | Rumina Sultana | |||||
| 13 | Ward No. 13 | None | AITC | Md. Sirajul Haque | CPI(M) | Md. Mohasin Ahmed | BJP | Tinku Biswas | INC | Md. Surabuddin Peada | |||||
| 14 | Ward No. 14 | SC Women | AITC | Sikha Mohanta | AIFB | Anima Mondal | BJP | Tumpa Howlader | INC | Gita Sardar | |||||
| 15 | Ward No. 15 | None | AITC | Sujit Mondal | CPI(M) | Sajal Kumar Saha | BJP | Tapan Ghosh | INC supports CPI(M) | ||||||
| 16 | Ward No. 16 | Women | AITC | Jayashri Bagui | Left Front supported Independent candidate Swagata Mazumder | BJP | Susmita Sen | INC | Kakali Bagui Ghosh | ||||||
| 17 | Ward No. 17 | None | AITC | Ashutosh Nandi | Left Front supported Independent candidate Shambu Nath Dey | BJP | Arun Kumar Hait | INC | Samir Roy | ||||||
| 18 | Ward No. 18 | AITC | Indranath Bagui | CPI(M) | Nilratan Roy | BJP | Anupam Banik | INC | Debasis Chatterjee | ||||||
| 19 | Ward No. 19 | Women | AITC | Piyali Sarkar | CPI(M) | Mithu Dutta | BJP | Sunita Ghosh | INC supports CPI(M) | ||||||
| 20 | Ward No. 20 | SC | AITC | Prosenjit Nag | CPI(M) | Jayanta Das | BJP | Debrabata Haldar | INC supports CPI(M) | ||||||
| 21 | Ward No. 21 | None | AITC | Monoranjan Ghosh | CPI(M) | Sanjoy Biswas | BJP | Nihar Sarkar | INC supports CPI(M) | ||||||
| 22 | Ward No. 22 | SC | AITC | Atindra Prasad Sana | CPI(M) | Soumya Kanti Roy | BJP | Sujan Krishna Howladar | INC | Raman Poddar | |||||
| 23 | Ward No. 23 | SC Women | AITC | Jhunku Mondal | CPI(M) | Debika Das Mondal | BJP | Saraswati Biswas | INC supports CPI(M) | ||||||
| 24 | Ward No. 24 | None | AITC | Manish Mukherjee | CPI(M) | Aloke Kumar Roy | BJP | Swapan Sikder | INC | Prabhat Saha | |||||
| 25 | Ward No. 25 | Women | AITC | Purnima Naskar | CPI(M) | Soma Mitra | BJP | Dipa Naskar | INC | Mira Poddar | |||||
| 26 | Ward No. 26 | None | AITC | Susobhan Mondal | CPI(M) | Gouri Nandi | BJP | Sadhana Dhali | INC | Jaydeb Dey | |||||
| 27 | Ward No. 27 | AITC | Bina Mondal | CPI(M) | Subham Das | BJP | Sankar Mondal | INC supports CPI(M) | |||||||
| 28 | Ward No. 28 | ST | AITC | Prabir Sardar | CPI(M) | Belpati Munda | BJP | Indrajit Prasad Singh | INC | Kesto Munda | |||||
| 29 | Ward No. 29 | Women | AITC | Krishna Chakraborty | CPI(M) | Saswati Dutta | BJP | Mitali Mukherjee | INC | Sikha Bhattacharjee | |||||
| 30 | Ward No. 30 | None | AITC | Anita Mondal | CPI(M) | Arindam Das | BJP | Uma Shankar Ghoshdastidar | INC | Sagar Dutta | |||||
| 31 | Ward No. 31 | AITC | Sabyasachi Dutta | AIFB | Bimalesh Thakur | BJP | Devasis Jana | INC | Partha Dey | ||||||
| 32 | Ward No. 32 | Women | AITC | Kakali Saha | CPI(M) | Sukanta Banerjee | BJP | Piyali Basu | INC | Indrani Bhattacharya | |||||
| CPI | Suhita Basu Mallik | ||||||||||||||
| 33 | Ward No. 33 | None | AITC | Banibrata Banerjee | CPI(M) | Basab Basak | BJP | Molly Paul | INC | Susanta Mondal | |||||
| 34 | Ward No. 34 | AITC | Alokananda Das | CPI(M) | Kamal Kumar Patra | BJP | Kaushik Biswas | INC | Mriganka Mallick | ||||||
| 35 | Ward No. 35 | SC | AITC | Jaydev Naskar | CPI(M) | Santanu Bar | BJP | Biswanath Panja | INC supports CPI(M) | ||||||
| 36 | Ward No.36 | Women | AITC | Chamili Naskar | CPI(M) | Chandana Mondal | BJP | Shampa Debnath | INC | Shibani Munda | |||||
| 37 | Ward No. 37 | SC Women | AITC | Minu Das Chakraborty | CPI(M) | Soma Pramanik Ghosh | BJP | Promita Saha | INC supports CPI(M) | ||||||
| 38 | Ward No. 38 | SC | AITC | Alo Dutta | CPI(M) | Anup Malik | BJP | Mintu Maity | INC supports CPI(M) | ||||||
| 39 | Ward No. 39 | None | AITC | Rajesh Chirimar | CPI(M) | Radhanath Chand | BJP | Soumyadeep Bhattacharya | INC | Dilip Kumar Bhattacharya | |||||
| 40 | Ward No. 40 | AITC | Tulsi Sinha Roy | CPI | Sumanta Basu | BJP | Mrinmoy Kanti Sorcar | INC | Ashok Kundu | ||||||
| 41 | Ward No. 41 | Women | AITC | Ratna Bhaumik | CPI(M) | Sutanuka bandopadhyay | BJP | Priyanka Chakraborty | INC | Pooja Parajita Roychoudhury | |||||
| 39 | 1 | 1 |
| AITC | INC | IND |
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