Published on Mar 29, 2021
TMC Candidate list 2021 West Bengal : TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today released the full list of TMC candidates for the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021.
Addressing the media, Mamata Banerjee informed that she will go to Nandigram on 9th March while she will be filing her nomination on 10th March at Haldia.
Below is the full list of candidates:
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TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee will release the candidate list like in the previous elections, the sources said.
The party is likely to release its manifesto on March 9, he said.
According to TMC sources, the party has decided to omit from the candidates list the names of several sitting MLAs who are 80 years old or are more.
The party plans to nominate more youths, women, and leaders with clean image and acceptability in their respective areas, they said.
Nearly 30 per cent of the 294 constituencies, including those held by 19 MLAs who have switched over to BJP, are likely to have new candidates, the sources said.
• Actress Sayantika Banerjee to contest from Bankura
• Actress Koushani Mukherjee to contest from Krishnanagar north
• Actor Chiranjeet Chakraborty to contest from Barasat
• Manoj Tiwary will contest from Shibpur
• Actress Lovely Maitra will contest from Sonarpur South
• Actor Kanchan Mullick will contest from Uttarpara
• Director Raj Chakrabarty will contest from Barrackpore
• Sobhandeb Chatterjee will contest from Bhawanipore
• Prof Omprakash Mishra to contest from Siliguri
In 2016 the TMC had won 211 seats in the 294-member House. The Left-Congress alliance had bagged 77 seats and the BJP three.
The election this time, which will see a stiff contest between the TMC and the BJP, will be held in eight phases beginning with polling for 30 seats on March 27. Votes will be counted on May 2.
After having a marginal presence in the politically polarised state for decades, the BJP has emerged as the ruling Trinamool Congress's main rival in the last couple of years.
It had managed to win 18 out of 42 seats in the Lok Sabha polls of 2019 and followed it with inducting popular TMC MP, MLAs and ministers into the party
