West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that she will be contesting from Nandigram in the assembly election in West Bengal to be held later this month as her party released the list of candidates for 291 seats.

"I will be contesting from Nandigram, my party colleague Sovandeb Chattopadhyay will be contesting from Bhawanipore seat," Mamata Banerjee was quoted by PTI.

She will visit Nandigram on March 9 and file her nomination from Haldia on March 10.

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She also pointed out that her party has emphasised youths, minorities, women, and backward communities in ticket distribution.

This time we have stressed on more youths and women candidates. Around 23-24 sitting MLAs have been dropped and there are names of about 50 women, 42 Muslims, 79 SC, and 17 ST candidates in the list," Banerjee said.

Banerjee termed it as the "easiest" election the TMC has ever faced, saying she is confident of returning to power for the third consecutive time.

"After we come to power we will create Vidhan Parishad to accommodate senior and experienced leaders. We could not accommodate everybody especially those above the age of 80 years," she said.

Banerjee also challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to deploy as much central force as it wants but the TMC will still emerge victorious.