‘No seat vacant’: Congress to take on Mamata with ‘big leader’, contest all 294 in Bengal polls | India News
New Delhi: Signaling an aggressive push ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections, the Congress on Saturday said it will contest all 294 seats in the state and will not back down from fielding candidates against the chief minister. Mamata Banerjee Bhavanipur.The announcement came after the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting in Delhi, where senior leaders discussed the candidate selection in detail.West Bengal AICC in-charge Ghulam Ahmed Mir said the party wants to field candidates in every seat, insisting on a full-scale electoral contest.“Whoever contests from Bhavanipur will be a big leader for us. We are fielding candidates in all 294 seats and we are not keeping any seat vacant,” Mir told news agency PTI.The high-level meeting was attended by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretary (organization) KC Venugopal and several leaders from West Bengal.Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and senior figures including CEC members Ambika Soni, Madhusudan Mistry, Salman Khurshid, TS Singhdeo, KJ George, PL Punia and Ami Yaznik were present.The move signals the Congress’s intention to reposition itself in a state where it has struggled in recent years, and is even expected to dominate the electoral battle. Trinamool Congress And the BJP.West Bengal will go to polls in two phases on April 23 and 29, with counting scheduled for May 4.
