The Trinamool Congress released its election manifesto ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, with three seats going to polls in the first phase on April 19. Titled Didir Shopoth (Didi's Pledge), the manifesto was released, in five languages including Nepali and Oi Chiki, by TMC senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’ Brien, senior leader Amit Mitra and Chandrima Bhattacharya at the party headquarters. On releasing the manifesto, O' Brien said, "these are the promises which we will fulfil as part of the INDIA bloc, when it forms the next government." TMC, which had pulled out of the INDIA coalition in the state, continues to be part of it nationally.