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The ruling TMC connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) announced its database of candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, with enactment supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declaring that the enactment volition contention 291 of the 294 seats successful the State.
Addressing a property league successful Kolkata, Ms. Banerjee said the remaining 3 seats successful the Darjeeling hills volition beryllium contested by Anit Thapa-led Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM).
"We volition contention 291 of the 294 seats. The remaining 3 seats volition beryllium contested by our ally, Anit Thapa-led BGPM, successful the Darjeeling hills," Ms. Banerjee said, portion announcing the names of candidates, flanked by the party's nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee and authorities president Subrata Bakshi.
Ms. Banerjee expressed assurance that the TMC would clasp powerfulness with a comfy bulk successful the 2026 Assembly elections.
"We volition triumph much than 226 seats successful the 2026 assembly polls," she asserted.
The Chief Minister besides sought to reassure enactment leaders and workers who could not find a spot successful the campaigner list, saying they would beryllium accommodated successful the organisation.
"All those who could not beryllium accommodated successful the campaigner database volition beryllium accommodated successful the organisation," she said.
Targeting the absorption Bharatiya Janata Party, Ms. Banerjee said the saffron enactment would spot its numbers diminution successful the upcoming polls.
"The BJP's tally volition alteration successful this election. They volition person a befitting reply for their anti-people policies," she said.
The announcement of the candidates sets the signifier for an aggravated electoral contention successful West Bengal, wherever the TMC is seeking to instrumentality to powerfulness for a 4th consecutive term.
