Kolkata, Mar 17 : All India Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata

Banerjee on Wednesday scheduled to

release party manifesto or election promises for 2021 West Bengal

assembly polls, which are starting from March 27.

Earlier, the ruling party postponed the release of election manifesto

for at least twice due to injury to the chief minister Mamata

Banerjee last week.

The TMC supremo, seeking into the chief ministerial office for the

time in a row since 2011, is expected to address a media conference

before releasing the party manifesto from her Kalighat office in south

Kolkata in the afternoon.

Earlier,the chief minister had released at of 291 candidates on March

5 for West Bengal’s eight-phase elections beginning from March 27.

The counting for 294 seats to be held on May 2.

The TMC left three seats for its ally GJM’s Bimal Gurung faction in

Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong.

Meanwhile, the TMC supreme leader on Tuesday received a stern message

from the Election Commission of India,

which warned that that it was not proper to belittle the institution

by calling it as being close to a party.

The EC asserted that it would not like to be repeatedly “put in the

dock” with innuendos and averments.(UNI)