Overview
- Trinamool Congress released 291 candidates, fielding Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur and reshaping its roster by dropping around one-third of sitting MLAs.
- BJP’s first list named 144 candidates, with Suvendu Adhikari contesting both Bhabanipur and Nandigram, alongside leaders such as Dilip Ghosh and Swapan Dasgupta.
- West Bengal will vote in two phases with 152 constituencies on April 23 and 142 on April 29, and the count is scheduled for May 4.
- The Election Commission detailed preparations across the five poll-bound regions, including 218,807 polling stations and about 2.5 million personnel with 850,000 security staff.
- A Special Intensive Revision of Bengal’s rolls removed about 6.18 million names and left roughly 6 million cases under adjudication by judicial officers, with the Supreme Court directing publication of supplementary lists.