India
oi-Deepika S
Kolkata, Mar 03: Trinamool Congress is likely to release its full list of candidates for the coming assembly poll on Friday and its election manifesto early next week, party sources said.
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee will release the candidate list like in the previous elections, the sources said.
“Though we had prepared the draft list even before the poll dates were announced on February 27, we had initially decided to release the list in phases. But now most likely the entire list of 294 candidates will be declared on March 5 by the party supremo,” a senior TMC leader said.
The party is likely to release its manifesto on March 9, he said.
According to TMC sources, the party has decided to omit from the candidates list the names of several sitting MLAs who are 80 years old or are more.
The party plans to…