Former Team India cricketer Yusuf Pathan is the Trinamool's candidate from Baharampur, a Congress bastion represented by its Lok Sabha leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. Mr Chowdhury has won the Baharampur Lok Sabha seat since 1999. Baharampur is currently among the two seats that the Congress still holds in West Bengal.The BJP has fielded Nirmal Saha, a doctor, from Baharampur, which has now become one of the most closely watched contests in West Bengal.
