Overview
- The party completed its roster by naming candidates in Alipurduars, Islampur, Gazole, Farakka, Sagardighi, Beldanga, Baduria, Ashoknagar, Sreerampore and Patashpur, bringing its total to all 294 seats.
- A separate release listed nine nominees and one change in Gazole, where Prem Chowdhury replaced Sanjay Sarkar for the Scheduled Caste–reserved seat.
- Congress will run without a seat-sharing pact, setting up a four-cornered fight with the Trinamool Congress, the BJP and the CPI(M)-led Left Front.
- Voting will take place in two phases on April 23 and April 29 with counting on May 4, with 152 constituencies in the first phase and 142 in the second.
- TMC chief Mamata Banerjee accused Congress of refusing to back her push against a Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls, a drive that updates voter lists, and alleged the Election Commission targeted her Bhabanipur seat by deleting many names.