Kolkata, March 16 The Left Front announced its first list of 192 candidates for the West Bengal assembly elections on Monday, with outgoing Rajya Sabha MP Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya and CPI(M) central committee member Minakshi Mukherjee among the key nominees.
Bhattacharya will contest from the Jadavpur constituency in the southern outskirts of Kolkata, while Mukherjee, a prominent figure in the Left Front, will fight from Uttarpara in the Hooghly district.
Mukherjee had been fielded from Nandigram in the 2021 elections 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, the mother of six-year-old Tamanna, who was killed in a crude bomb blast allegedly thrown from a victory rally on the day of the by-elections in the seat in June last year, which was won by the TMC.
Left Front chairman Biman Bose said that the names for the remaining seats will be finalized and announced within three to four days.
The assembly elections will be held in the state on April 23 and 29, and votes will be counted on May 4.