NEW DELHI: The All India Trinamool Congress on Tuesday introduced its listing of candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Meeting elections. Social gathering supremo and chief minister Mamata Banerjee declared that the get together will contest 291 of the 294 seats within the state. The remaining three seats within the Darjeeling hills will probably be contested by Anit Thapa-led Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM).
Mamata has determined to contest the election from Bhabanipur towards BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari. In the meantime, the TMC has additionally fielded Adhikari’s former loyalist Pabitra Kar towards him in Nandigram.Moreover, 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’ll contest 291 of the 294 seats. The remaining three seats will probably be contested by our ally, Anit Thapa-led BGPM, within the Darjeeling hills,” Banerjee stated whereas asserting the names of candidates, flanked by the get together’s nationwide normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee and state president Subrata Bakshi.Among the many TMC’s 291 candidates for the West Bengal polls, 52 are girls, 95 are from SC/ST communities, and 47 are minorities.See full listingMamata expressed confidence that the TMC would retain energy with a cushty majority within the 2026 Meeting elections.“We’ll win greater than 226 seats within the 2026 Meeting polls,” she asserted.The chief minister additionally sought to reassure get together leaders and employees who couldn’t discover a place within the candidate listing, saying they’d be accommodated within the organisation.Earlier on Sunday, the Election Fee introduced that the Meeting polls in West Bengal will probably be held in two phases on April 23 and April 29.Whereas asserting the ballot schedule for 4 states and one Union Territory, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar stated that lowering the variety of phases was essential to make elections handy for everybody.The counting of votes for the West Bengal Meeting elections 2026 will happen on Could 4, together with that of Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, and Tamil Nadu. Within the 2021 Bengal elections, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress secured 215 seats, whereas the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering turned the official opposition with 77 seats.
