List of All India Forward Bloc candidates in the 2014 Indian general election

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On 21 March 2014 the All India Forward Bloc released its first list of candidates for the 2014 Lok Sabha election. The list included candidates for 38 seats in West Bengal, Maharashtra, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Odisha, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Delhi. According to the party general secretary Debabrata Biswas the main objective of the party in the elections was "to strengthen and unite the Left, democratic and secular forces to achieve an alternative policy for reconstruction of the country". [1] [2]

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Bihar

Pancham Lal joined the party on 18 March 2014, and was nominated for the Pataliputra seat. Lal had been a senior civil servant. He retired from his post as chief secretary in 2012. During his administrative career, he faced opposition from several different Chief Ministers as he criticised corruption and criminal links of state ministers. He had earlier been associated with the Indian National Congress and the Samajwadi Party. [3] Commenting on his candidature, Lal stated that his foremost objective was not to win the Lok Sabha seat but "to raise the cause of the oppressed and weaker sections, who are exploited and victimized". [4]

Karnataka

The party fielded G.R. Shivshankar, secretary of its Karnataka state unit, in the Bangalore South seat. [5] [6] He is the president of the labour wing of the party, the Trade Union Coordination Committee (TUCC). [7] [8]

Kerala

No candidates from Kerala were included in the first list released on 21 March 2014. [1] On 11 March 2014 the party chairman K. Velappan Nair stated that the party would contest four seats in the state; Kollam, Idukki, Thrissur and Kannur. The All India Secretary of the party, G. Devarajan, would contest from Kollam, whilst no names were given for the three other seats. [9] G. Devarajan would contested against the Left Democratic Front nominee and CPI(M) leader M.A. Baby and the United Democratic Front nominee N.K. Premachandran of the RSP. [10] Three days later G. Devarajan stated that he would withdraw his candidature if the party was included in the LDF and that talks with CPI(M) were ongoing. [11]

Maharashtra

The party fielded the candidacy of veteran pro-Vidarbha statehood leader Jambuwantrao Dhote in the Nagpur seat. Dhote had won the Nagpur seat in the 1971 election as an All India Forward Bloc candidate but had since contested on behalf of many other parties. Another pro-Vidarbha statehood leader, Sandesh Bhalekar from the Parivartan Morcha, was fielded by the party in the Ramtek seat. [12] In a statement made in early February 2014, commenting on his return to the party, Dhote stated that the ambition of the All India Forward Bloc was to contest all ten Lok Sabha seats in Vidarbha. At the time he hinted that the party was seeking to establish a pre-poll pact with the Janata Dal (United), the Indian Union Muslim League and the Shivrajya Party. [13] Dhote was elected deputy chairman of the party at its 17th congress in September 2013. [14]

West Bengal

In West Bengal the party contests elections as part of the Left Front. [15] In regards to the two West Bengal seats that it won in the 2009 election, the party decided to field incumbent parliamentarian Narahari Mahato in the Purulia seat whilst fielding a new candidate in the Cooch Behar seat. [1]

List of candidates

State/UT
No.
ConstituencyReserved for
(SC/ST/None)
Candidatea [2] [15] [16]
Andaman & Nicobar Andaman & Nicobar NoneM.K Thakur
Assam Tezpur NoneRajen Saikia
Assam Jorhat NoneHaren Borgonhai
Assam Kaliabor NoneMithul Kumar (Tanti)
Assam Nowgong NoneRafikul Islam
Assam Dibrugarh NoneCheniram Moran
Assam Barpeta NoneRabbul Islam
Bihar Muzaffarpur NoneRavindra Lal Karna
Bihar Sheohar NoneRamashankar Singh
Bihar Arrah NoneShriprakash Tiwari (Munna Tiwari)
Bihar Pataliputra None Pancham Lal
Delhi West Delhi NoneCharanjeet Singh
Haryana Kurukshetra NoneManoj Kumar
Haryana Karnal NoneAshish Sharma
Haryana Sonipat NoneRam Mehar
Jharkhand Kodarma NoneRaghunandan Prasad Biswakarma
Jharkhand Giridih NoneSanjib Kumar
Jharkhand Singhbhum STMiran Munda
Karnataka Bangalore South NoneG.R. Shivashankar
Maharashtra Nagpur None Jambuwantrao Dhote
Maharashtra Ramtek SCSandesh Bhalekar
Maharashtra Bhandara-Gondiya NoneRam Dayal Hirkane
Maharashtra Yavatmal-Washim None Jambuwantrao Dhote
Maharashtra Amravati SCNarayan Dhangar
Maharashtra Osmanabad NoneShiv Das Lakhadive
Maharashtra Nashik NoneMahesh Avaad
Maharashtra Hingoli NoneSheikh Sultan
Odisha Kalahandi NoneMrityunjaya Prasad
Rajasthan Jaipur NoneNavraj Sharma
Uttar Pradesh Kanpur NoneArun Sharma
Uttar Pradesh Mainpuri NoneVeer Singh Chauhan
Uttar Pradesh Sitapur NoneJagmohan Singh Verma
Uttar Pradesh Ballia NoneJairam Pandey
Uttar Pradesh Baghpat NoneNarendra Kumar
Uttar Pradesh Gonda NoneShriram Yadav
West Bengal Purulia None Narahari Mahato
West Bengal Barasat NoneMurtoza Hossain
West Bengal Cooch Behar SCDipak Kumar Roy

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