[3] The campaign of the Left Front focused on issues relating to secularism, communal harmony and the Mandal Commission.

[4][5] The Communist Party of India (Marxist), the dominant partner in the Left Front, opted to deny reelection to 23 incumbent legislators, including one minister (Abdul Bari).

[6][7] The Indian National Congress (Indira) had seat-sharing arrangement, whereby INC(I) contested 285 seats, the Jharkhand Party 4, the GNLF 3, UCPI 1 and 1 independent.

[5] Whilst the Congress was keen to exploit Ray's popularity, who campaigned on the issues of corruption like the 'Bengal Lamp scam' raised by PWD minister of the Left Front Jatin Chakraborty & the 1990 Bantala rape case (committed in an attempt to hide corruption) and highlighted the deindustrialisation of the state caused due to Jyoti Basu's support to the hyperactivity of Communist labour unions, the CPI(M) organ Ganashakti published articles on a daily basis reminding voters of Ray's role in perpetrating state-sponsored anti-Communist violence during the Emergency era.

[4] In the midst of a rally in Diamond Harbour, with ex Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as speaker, rival Congress factions clashed.