The BJP on Tuesday released its final list of candidates with 11 new names and two replacements.

The party has denied ticket to Congress turncoat Dulal Bar, who is the sitting Bagda MLA. Trinamul turncoat and Bongaon North MLA Biswajit Das has been nominated from Bagda.

The decision BJP sources said was a fallout of Bongaon MP and All India Matua Mahasangha chief Shantanu Thakur’s meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday night. Bar is considered opposed to Shantanu in the BJP’s scheme of things.

“What can I say if this is the party’s decision? The party has seen the larger good I believe. I will not file nomination as an Independent and will discharge the duties the party assigns me,” Bar said.

Shantanu and family had demanded 30 seats but the BJP did not concede. As a compromise, Shantanu wanted at least three candidates of his choice and opposed Bar. Subrata Thakur, Shantanu’s brother, has been fielded from Gaighata.

Ashok Kritonia, the candidate from Bongaon North, is a close aide to the BJP MP.

The party has fielded economist and former chief economic adviser to the central government Ashok Lahiri from Balurghat. While Lahiri was initially nominated from Alipurduar, he was replaced by local candidate Suman Kanjilal. Local BJP workers had refused to accept Lahiri and had termed him as an outsider. Lahiri had been a voter in Delhi, but in the meantime, he got his name registered on the Bengal electoral roll. Balurghat will go to the polls on April 26,.

Another notable nomination is of former deputy chief of army staff Lt Gen (retd) Subrata Saha from the Rashbehari seat in Calcutta. Saha is often regarded as the poster boy for the Make in India initiative for the army and credited for setting up the Army Design bureau in 2016.

The BJP also replaced two candidates — Shikha Mitra Chowdhury from Chowringhee and Tarun Saha from Kashipur-Belgachhia — who had said they were not members of the BJP after the list was announced on March 18.

While Shikha is a Congress leader and wife of former state Congress chief Somen Mitra, Tarun is a Trinamul leader.

On Tuesday, the BJP replaced the two with Debabrata Mazhi and Shibaji Singha Roy for Chowringhee and Kashipur-Belgachhia, respectively.

While Shibaji is the president of the party’s North Calcutta organisational district, Debabrata is known as a staunch advocate of Hindutva.

The BJP had already declared advocate Loknath Chatterjee as its candidate at Ballygunge, Calcutta.