West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee publishes the Trinamool Congress party's campaigner database for the upcoming West Bengal assembly predetermination successful Kolkata connected March 17, 2026. TMC enactment MP and wide caput Abhishek Banerjee besides seen.
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The Election Commission of India (ECI) has deployed a full of 1,111 observers for the upcoming Assembly elections successful Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, arsenic good arsenic the bye-elections successful six States, with West Bengal receiving the maximum number.
West Bengal has been assigned 1 wide perceiver for each of its 294 constituencies, on with 84 constabulary observers and 100 expenditure observers. Tamil Nadu has been allocated 136 wide observers, 40 constabulary observers and 151 expenditure observers. The commensurate figures for Assam are 51, 35 and 50 and for Kerala are 51, 17 and 40. For Puducherry, the numbers are 17, 4 and 17.
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The Trinamool Congress (TMC) connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) announced the names of 291 candidates for the 294 Assembly seats of West Bengal for the upcoming election. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee volition contention from Bhabanipur, the constituency she has been representing since 2011, wherever she volition instrumentality connected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person Suvendu Adhikari.
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March 18, 2026 06:42
Trinamool plays harmless successful campaigner enactment for 2026 West Bengal Assembly election
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) announced the names of 291 candidates for the 294 Assembly seats of West Bengal for the upcoming election. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee volition contention from Bhabanipur, the constituency she has been representing since 2011, wherever she volition instrumentality connected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person Suvendu Adhikari.
Including Ms. Banerjee, the Trinamool has fielded 52 women candidates; 95 candidates from the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities; and 47 candidates from number communities.
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Assam MP Pradyut Bordoloi quits Congress
Less than a period aft its erstwhile State president Bhupen Kumar Borah switched implicit to the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Assam Congress mislaid 1 of its 3 MPs connected Tuesday. (March 17, 2026).
Pradyut Bordoloi, who represented the Congress from the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat, submitted his resignation to enactment president Mallikarjun Kharge. The latter’s bureau said it did not person the letter.
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Assam MP Pradyut Bordoloi resigns from Congress, citing humiliation implicit campaigner selection, raising speculation astir joining BJP.
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