Kolkata: Gearing up for the elections to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), the Left Front has brought in a number of young women and men as candidates. Several of these candidates have been drawn from the ‘Red’ volunteers, who have been on the streets, doing relief work after cyclone and pandemic ravaged the state. In the last poll in 2015, there had been 48 Left Front women candidates, while this year there will be 56 women candidates. In the last poll, TMC had won 126 seats. Left Poll PlankAccording to the Left front – their poll plank includes the demand for filling up 28,000 vacancies within a year; increase the scope of 100 days work; taking up new projects to increase employment.

Source: Indian Express November 29, 2021 19:05 UTC