TMC to release candidate list tomorrow
March 04, 2021 18:12
Trinamool Congress will release its full list of candidates for the coming assembly poll on Friday and its election manifesto early next week, party sources said.
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee will release the candidate list like in the previous elections, the sources 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.
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.
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