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TMC announces 291 candidates, Mamata to contest from Bhabanipur
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|March 18, 2026
(IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday announced 291 candidates for the two-phase April elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly, dropping almost all the leaders under the scanner of central agencies in various scams, while nearly a fifth of the nominees are women.
There are a total of 52 women candidates, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, or around 18 per cent of the total candidates. The Chief Minister is contesting from Bhabanipur in south Kolkata, where the BJP candidate is the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, who had defeated Banerjee in Nandigram in the 2021 polls, is also fighting from the
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