Bengal Election 2021
Bengal: Youth, women likely to be given importance in Trinamool Congress candidate list
Kolkata/IBNS: The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal is likely to give importance to the young generation and women in its candidate list for the upcoming state polls.
Former Trinamool MP Vivek Gupta told a news channel that youth and women will be given more opportunities while leaders above the age of 80 will not be given tickets to contest the polls.
As per reports, Trinamool young leaders Debangshu Bhattacharya, Sudip Raha are likely to be given tickets for the polls.
Likely any other elections, a line of Bengali film personalities like Raj Chakraborty, Soham Chakraborty, Saayoni Ghosh and Kanchan Mullick will possibly be the Trinamool candidates.
Soham, an actor-turned politician, had contested the 2016 polls but was defeated by Congress' Abdul Mannan.
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee may announce the candidate list for 294 seats within a few days.
Banerjee has already announced that she will be fighting from Nandigram, which is the bastion of her former lieutenant and now Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari.
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor's Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), which is assisting the Trinamool, has conducted a research in helping to pick the candidates for the 2021 polls.
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