In West Bengal, opposition Trinamul Congress has announced candidates list unilaterally for assembly polls in the state leaving 64 seats to Congress. Announcing this in Kolkata this afternoon party chief Mamata Banerjee said that the Trinamul Cogress will fight 228 seats. Expressing dissatisfaction over the formation of alliance with the Congress Banerjee said that if the party does not announce its candidates list by Monday, the Trinamul Congress will put up candidates to these seats also. The Trinamul Congress left two seats for its ally Socialist Unity Centre of India, SUCI. AIR Kolkata correspondent Arijit Chakraborty reports that five standing MLAs of the Trinamul Congress have been dropped due to de-limitation of constituencies. The ruling Left front has already announced its candidates list for all 294 seats while BJP has announced the name of 106 candidates so far. The West Bengal is going for six phase assembly polls beginning from 18th of next month.
News On AIR | March 18, 2011 9:17 PM
WB polls: TC announces list; leaves 64 seats to Congress