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Legislative Assembly elections for 294 seats of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly are scheduled to be held in 2021.

Background
In the previous elections in 2016, the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) retained its majority in the Legislative Assembly. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 3 of the 294 elected seats. However, in the 2019 general elections the BJP won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats, comparable to AITC's 22 seats. It bagged 40 percent of the vote share, an increase from the previous time and in by-elections from 2016 to 2021. BJP has also increased their seats in the legislative assembly by 15 as of 2020.

Issues
In 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union Government passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) in the Indian Parliament, promising citizenship to Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh and hoping to provide them with habilitation. The BJP's Bengali booklet released in January 2020 claimed that the National Register of Citizens will be implemented to identify the undocumented migrants, but Hindus, Sikhs, and other non-Muslims will be "shielded" by the Citizenship Amendment Act "They have their homelands secured".

The COVID-19 pandemic also became an election issue. The Government of West Bengal was accused of "fudging" with the number of Coronavirus disease 2019 positive patients and death tolls by the opposition.

In May 2020, Cyclone Amphan hit the state a year before elections. After the passing away of the cyclone, widespread allegations of mismanagement and relief scam were seen. Protest broke out in various district of the state over these allegations. The opposition made it an election issue ahead of the Assembly polls. Rebellion and dissatisfaction of many Trinamool leaders are also likely to impact the elections.

Election
These elections will be conducted amid the COVID-19 pandemic so the necessary guidelines will be issued by the Election Commission of India.