LS polls: Former cricketer Yusuf Pathan to be TMC’s candidate from Baharampur
A double World Cup winner, 41-year-old Pathan played 57 ODIs and 22 T20Is for India between 2008 and 2012.
Yusuf Pathan. File photo
Former India cricketer Yusuf Pathan has entered politics and will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, it was announced on Sunday (March 10).
Pathan will contest from West Bengal's Baharampur (Berhampore) constituency on a Trinamool Congress (TMC) ticket. He is likely to face Congress' Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, five-term MP from the Baharampur seat.
A double World Cup winner, 41-year-old Pathan played 57 ODIs and 22 T20Is for India between 2008 and 2012. He was part of India's World T20-winning squad led by MS Dhoni. He also played in the 2011 World Cup-winning team.
The all-rounder, who hails from Vadodara in Gujarat, retired from cricket in 2021.
"I'm eternally grateful to Smt. @MamataOfficial for welcoming me into the TMC family and trusting me with the responsibility to become people's voice in the Parliament. As representatives of the people, it is our duty to uplift the poor and deprived, and that is what I hope to achieve," Pathan wrote on his X (Twitter) account.
The TMC on Sunday announced candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal.