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NEW DELHI: The All India Trinamool Congress connected Tuesday announced its database of candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections. Party supremo and main curate Mamata Banerjee declared that the enactment volition contention 291 of the 294 seats successful the state.
The remaining 3 seats successful the Darjeeling hills volition beryllium contested by Anit Thapa-led Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM).Mamata has decided to contention the predetermination from Bhabanipur against BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari. Meanwhile, the TMC has besides fielded Adhikari’s erstwhile loyalist Pabitra Kar against him successful Nandigram.Additionally, Chandrima Bhattacharya has been fielded from the Dum Dum Uttar seat, Madan Mitra from the Kamarhati seat, Firhad Hakim from the Kolkata Port seat, Kunal Ghosh from the Beleghata seat, and Dr Shashi Panja from the Shyampukur seat.
"We volition contention 291 of the 294 seats. The remaining 3 seats volition beryllium contested by our ally, Anit Thapa-led BGPM, successful the Darjeeling hills," Banerjee said portion announcing the names of candidates, flanked by the party's nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee and authorities president Subrata Bakshi.Among the TMC's 291 candidates for the West Bengal polls, 52 are women, 95 are from SC/ST communities, and 47 are minorities.
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Mamata expressed assurance that the TMC would clasp powerfulness with a comfy bulk successful the 2026 Assembly elections."We volition triumph much than 226 seats successful the 2026 Assembly polls," she asserted.The main curate besides sought to reassure enactment leaders and workers who could not find a spot successful the campaigner list, saying they would beryllium accommodated successful the organisation.Earlier connected Sunday, the Election Commission announced that the Assembly polls successful West Bengal volition beryllium held successful 2 phases connected April 23 and April 29.While announcing the canvass docket for 4 states and 1 Union Territory, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said that reducing the fig of phases was indispensable to marque elections convenient for everyone.The counting of votes for the West Bengal Assembly elections 2026 volition instrumentality spot connected May 4, on with that of Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, and Tamil Nadu. In the 2021 Bengal elections, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress secured 215 seats, portion the Bharatiya Janata Party became the authoritative absorption with 77 seats.
