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Mamata files nomination paper in West Bengal

Kolkata, April 8: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today filed her nomination papers for the West Bengal Assembly elections from Bhabanipur constituency in south Kolkata.

Accompanied by a large number of supporters, the West Bengal Chief Minister submitted her papers at the District Election Office in Alipore.

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Later in the afternoon, Congress nominee and former union minister Deepa Dasmunsi and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose of BJP - both of whom are pitted against Banerjee - also filed their nomination.

In the race from the high-profile constituency is a transgender Bobby Halder who has been fielded by Lok Janshakti Party.

PTI

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