For Mamata Banerjee to create a Congress-mukt Bengal, it is imperative she establishes her hegemony in Murshidabad, the land of the nawabs. And the 2021 Assembly polls provides her with that opportunity when 11 seats in the district votes on Thursday.
In 2011, the year of poribartan , Murshidabad, with a 68 per cent Muslim population, sided mostly with the Congress. Mamata could win only one seat.
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Mamata handed over the reins of Murshidabad district to her then trusted aide, Suvendu Adhikari, in 2015.
Dissension within the Khan Chowdhury family had made it easier for Mamata to make inroads in neighbouring Malda. Incidentally, the rise of the BJP in Malda also coincides with the weakening of the Congress and the CPM in the district.
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Murshidabad is rare Bengal pocket where CPM-Congress alliance is still a force to reckon with
Murshidabad district, which votes today, has a 70% Muslim populace. CPI(M) and Congress still continue to dominate the area and pose serious threat to Trinamool.
Madhuparna Das 26 April, 2021 9:06 am IST Text Size:
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Murshidabad: The district of Murshidabad, Bengal’s third largest with 22 assembly seats, is headed for a direct fight. The battle lines in the former administrative headquarters of undivided Bengal have been drawn primarily between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the Sanjukta Morcha, an alliance of Left parties, the Congress and new entrant Indian Secular Front (ISF).