Just in: Congress releases another list of 42 candidates for upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal. Congress's Deepa Das Munshi to contest against CM Mamata Banerjee from Bhawanipore. Munshi is the wife of Cong leader Priya Ranjan Das Munshi and was Union Minister of State for Urban Development in the NDA government.


The Congress on Tuesday announced its first list of names of its candidates for 43 seats for West Bengal assembly poll and indicated it would contest around 90 of total 294 constituencies as part of its "strategic alliance" with the CPI(M)-led Left Front.


In the last Assembly polls, Congress had contested 61 seats in alliance with Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress which led to ouster of the CPI(M)-led Left Front after over 33 years in power.


Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been sharply critical of the strategic alliance between the Congress and the Left.