Bengal Election 2021: Congress releases its first list of 13 candidates

Congress has released the first list of 13 candidates for the West Bengal assembly elections. The party’s candidates include Nepal Mahato, a senior leader of the West Bengal Congress Committee, who will contest from his current seat, Baghmundi.

The Congress is contesting elections in West Bengal along with the Left parties and the Indian Secular Front. According to the alliance agreement, this time Congress will contest 92 seats as of 2016.

West Bengal will go to the polls in eight phases. Voting will be held in various constituencies across the state on March 27, April 1, April 6, April 10, April 17, April 22, April 26 and April 29.

Let us tell you that the major rival parties of the state BJP and the TMC have also released their list of candidates. According to the first list of 57 candidates in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s West Bengal polls, according to Nandigram’s BJP, it recently fielded a big leader Shubhendu from TMC. A day earlier, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had declared herself a candidate. In such a situation, now Nandigram will have a very interesting and tough competition.

Former Indian cricketer Ashok Dinda and former IPS officer Bharti Ghosh are also among the BJP’s candidates. The BJP has placed 7 women on the list.

TMC released its list of 291 candidates this first Friday. Mamata Banerjee has said that TMC will not field its candidates in the three seats in North Bengal. Of these TAMC candidates, there are 50 women and 42 Muslim candidates. Moreover, 79 candidates from the Dalit community have been given the opportunity and Mamata Banerjee has announced that she will not contest from Bhawanipur.

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