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Trinamool and Congress Search for New Faces in Municipal Polls
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News18•11-10-2026, 11:16
Trinamool and Congress Search for New Faces in Municipal Polls
- •Municipal elections are scheduled to take place right after the festive season
- •Encouraged by by-election trends, Congress is gearing up to contest the municipal polls with a strategy for new candidates
- •Interested candidates for Kolkata and Howrah municipal elections can submit application forms and biodatas at district offices or Bidhan Bhavan
- •Mamata's Trinamool has also simultaneously initiated the process of collecting biodatas to find new faces
- •Trinamool application forms are open for submission from October 11 to 16
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Both parties are collecting biodatas and information profiles to search for new faces ahead of the upcoming municipal elections, which are set to take place after the festive season ends.
Interested party workers and leaders seeking to contest the municipal elections can submit their application forms starting from October 11 through October 16.
Congress performed relatively well in both the Nandigram and Rejinagar constituencies during the by-elections, rising to second place as an opposition force and motivating them to jump into the municipal polls.
