Day after the Election Commission announced the voting dates for West Bengal Assembly election 2026, the Left Front has announced its first list of 192 candidates, with outgoing Rajya Sabha MP Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya and CPI(M) central committee member Minakshi Mukherjee among key nominees.
While Bikash Bhattacharya has been fielded from the Jadavpur constituency in the southern outskirts of Kolkata, Minakshi Mukherjee, a youth face of the Left Front, will fight from Uttarpara in Hooghly district.
In the 2021 Assembly polls, Minakshi Mukherjee was fielded from Nandigram constituency and came third after BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee.
The Left Front fielded from Kaliganj as CPI(M) candidate Sabina Yasmin, mother of six-year-old Tamanna, who was killed in a crude bomb blast thrown allegedly from a victory rally on the day of counting for the byelections in the seat in June last year, which was won by the TMC.
Left Front chairman Biman Bose said that the candidates for the remaining seats will be finalized and announced within three to four days.
The assembly polls will be held in the state on April 23 and 29, and votes will be counted on May 4.
