Trinamool Congress has given tickets to the BJP turncoats even as the party on Friday announced its candidates for the upcoming by-elections to four Assembly seats. The elections will take place on July 10 and results will be declared on July 13.

Two former BJP leaders Krishna Kalyani and Mukut Mani Adhikari were given tickets by the TMC. While Kalyani who lost to BJP in recently concluded Lok Sabha elections was given a ticket from Hemtabad seat in Raiganj Adhikari a Matua leader was given a ticket from Ranaghat

South seat. Adhikari a sitting BJP MLA who joined the TMC and contested in the Parliamentary elections too lost the polls.

Besides Madhuparna Thakur the daughter of Matua leader and TMC MP Mamata Bala Thakur was given a ticket from Bagda Assembly seat in Kolkata’s Manicktala seat Supti Pandey the widow of late TMC leader and minister Sadhan Pandey will contest on the party ticket.

Meanwhile, Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday conceded defeat saying the TMC had indeed fared better than the BJP but assured his fight would continue in future.

“Yes Mamata Banerjee has successfully navigated her party to victory and we have lost some

seats but it is equally true that she and her party has been defeated in mu home district East Midnapore,” Adhikari who has been under attack from the BJP old-timers who have RSS

background said adding his fight against the TMC misrule would continue.

“There will be no let up in the struggle against the corrupt TMC government … we will continue our fight and carry it till the end,” he said.

While both the BJP and the Left are yet to declare their candidates inside sources said the Left- Congress alliance would continue for the time being as the Congress in most likelihood contest from Raiganj leaving the remaining three for the Left.