Kolkata: The last phase of the Lok Sabha polls in 17 seats in West Bengal tomorrow would be crucial for the Trinamool Congress which would seek to retain the 14 seats it had won in 2009.
Prominent among the 188 candidates are TMC's Sudip Bandyopadhyay in Kolkata North, Dinesh Trivedi in Barrackpore and Sougata Roy in Dum Dum, besides celebrities like Dipak Adhikari (Dev) in Ghatal and Tapas Paul in Krishnagar.
Trinamool Yuva President Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of Mamata Banerjee, is also a candidate to watch out. CPI-M's Subhasini Ali is fighting from the Barrackpore seat.
BJP's candidate magician P C Sorcar (Junior) is contesting from Barasat while WBPCC President Adhir Chowdhury is fighting from Berhampore.
Also in the fray were former finance minister Asim Dasgupta of the CPI-M and former union minister Tapan Sikdar of the BJP in Dum Dum.