Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday announced a list of candidates for the upcoming West Bengal assembly election with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee contesting from Bhabanipur.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Suvendu Adhikari from Bhabanipur seat along with Nandigram.
Banerjee said that TMC will contest 291 of 294 seats in the Bengal assembly election.
"We will contest 291 of the 294 seats. The remaining three seats will be contested by our ally, Anit Thapa-led BGPM, in the Darjeeling hills," Banerjee said, while announcing the names of candidates, flanked by the party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and state president Subrata Bakshi.
Among TMC's 291 candidates, 52 are women, 95 SCs-STs and 47 minorities.
She also expressed confidence that the TMC would retain power with a comfortable majority. "We will win more than 226 seats in the 2026 assembly polls," she asserted.
The party has fielded Firhad Hakim in Kolkata Port, Kunal Ghosh in Beleghata, Jyotipriyo Mallick in Habra seat. Whereas, Goutam Deb will contest from Siliguri, Pabitra Kar from Nandigram, and Sayoni Singh Roy from Murshidabad.
Targeting the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, Banerjee said the saffron party would see its numbers decline in the upcoming polls.
"The BJP's tally will decrease in this election. They will receive a befitting reply for their anti-people policies," she said.
Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee also targetted EC and alleged that the officials were transferred at BJP's behest.
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