The BJP retained Union minister of state for youth affairs Nitish Parmanik in the Cooch Behar seat, and Union minister of state and prominent Mathua leader Santanu Thakur has been fielded from Bongaon
Mahua Moitra was expelled as the MP from Krishnanagar last year after being found guilty by the Parliament's ethics committee in a cash for question case.
The Sikh community also staged a demonstration outside the Bengal BJP headquarters in Kolkata hours after the IPS officer lost his cool on being called a Khalistani, allegedly by Adhikari, when the latter was stopped from going to the trouble-torn Sandeshkhali area in North 24 Parganas district