'No seat vacant': Congress to take on Mamata with 'big leader', contest all 294 in Bengal polls

NEW DELHI: Signalling an assertive propulsion up of the West Bengal assembly elections, the Congress connected Saturday said it volition contention each 294 seats successful the authorities and volition not shy distant from fielding a campaigner against main curate Mamata Banerjee successful Bhawanipur.The announcement came aft a gathering of the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) successful Delhi, wherever elder leaders held elaborate discussions connected campaigner selection.AICC in-charge for West Bengal Ghulam Ahmad Mir said the enactment intends to enactment up candidates successful each constituency, underscoring a full-scale electoral contest."Anyone who contests from Bhawanipur volition beryllium a large person for us. We are fielding candidates connected each 294 seats and we are not leaving immoderate spot vacant," Mir told quality bureau PTI.

The high-level gathering was attended by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, erstwhile enactment main Rahul Gandhi, AICC wide caput (organisation) K C Venugopal, and respective leaders from West Bengal.Senior figures including Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and CEC members Ambika Soni, Madhusudan Mistry, Salman Khurshid, TS Singhdeo, KJ George, PL Punia and Amee Yajnik were besides present.The determination indicates Congress’ intent to reassert itself successful a authorities wherever it has struggled successful caller years, adjacent arsenic the electoral conflict is expected to beryllium dominated by the Trinamool Congress and the BJP.West Bengal volition spell to polls successful 2 phases connected April 23 and 29, with counting scheduled for May 4.