KOLKATA, April 8 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released its sixth and final list for the West Bengal assembly polls, naming Rakesh Singh as its candidate for the Kolkata Port seat.

The announcement comes just 24 hours after Singh was released on bail by the High Court of Calcutta after the BJP told a bench of justice Kausik Chanda that the party intended to field him in the state elections.

Kolkata Port is set for a high-stakes battle between Rakesh Singh and Kolkata mayor and state cabinet minister Firhad Hakim, who has held the seat since 2011, when the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress first came to power in West Bengal.

The constituency, which heads to the polls in the final phase on April 29, remains a Trin...