Soham Chakraborty — ₹ 52 lakh

Party: TMC
District: Purba Medinipur
Constituency: Chandipur

Fighting for the Chandipur constituency in Purba Medinipur. Part of Mamata Banerjee’s Tollywood squad, the star has the third highest reported income among West Bengal’s candidates fighting the upcoming election.

He joined the TMC in 2014 and was appointed as the All India Trinamool Youth Congress state vice president a year later.

During the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election, Chakraborty contested from Barjora. But, he was defeated by Sujit Chakraborty of CPI-M by a margin of 616 votes.