India
oi-Deepika S
Kolkata, Mar 01: The Trinamool Congress is likely to axe several sitting MLAs from its candidate list for the upcoming West Bengal elections, sources said on Monday.
The party is planning to nominate more youths, women, and leaders with clean image and acceptability in their area, they said.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met the party”s 12- member election committee in the afternoon at her residence in Kalighat and brain-stormed over the nominations.
“Today, the election committee authorised Mamata Banerjee to take the final call regarding selecting candidates,” a senior TMC leader said.
Nearly 30 per cent of the 294 constituencies, including those of the 19 MLAs who have switched over to BJP, are likely to have new candidates, the sources said.
“Reports by Prashant Kishor”s I-PAC on every MLA and their constituencies are likely to play a key role in the candidate…