India, May 4 -- Communist Party of India (Marxist) Central Committee member and former DYFI state secretary, Minakshi Mukherjee, is contesting the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections from Hooghly district's Uttarpara constituency. As one of the most prominent faces of the "Left's Youth Shift," Mukherjee is leading the charge for the CPI(M) in a seat that has traditionally seen high-voltage industrial politics.

In this election, Mukherjee faces a high-stakes battle in an urban-industrial belt. The CPI(M) candidate is fighting against TMC's Sirsanya Bandopadhyay and Dipanjan Chakraborty of the BJP.

On the campaign trail in Uttarpara, she framed the 2026 election as a struggle for "jobs, justice, and the reopening of closed factories," pos...