New Delhi, March 16 -- Day after the Election Commission announced the voting dates for West Bengal Assembly election 2026, the Left Front has announced its first list of 192 candidates, with outgoing Rajya Sabha MP Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya and CPI(M) central committee member Minakshi Mukherjee among key nominees.

While Bikash Bhattacharya has been fielded from the Jadavpur constituency in the southern outskirts of Kolkata, Minakshi Mukherjee, a youth face of the Left Front, will fight from Uttarpara in Hooghly district.

In the 2021 Assembly polls, Minakshi Mukherjee was fielded from Nandigram constituency and came third after BJP's Suvendu Adhikari and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee.

The Left Front fielded from Kaliganj ...