New Delhi, March 16 -- West Bengal is all set for the assembly elections to be held in two phases - 23 and 29 April. The votes will be counted on 4 May.

The Election Commission announced the poll schedule for West Bengal, along with Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry, on Sunday, 15 March.

The West Bengal election is being seen as a fight between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The TMC, led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has been in power in West Bengal since 2011, for three consecutive terms.

Before 2011, the Left Front ruled West Bengal for 34 years - one of the longest democratically elected communist governments in the world.

The Left rule started in West Bengal in 1977. Jyoti Basu was ...