Mamata announces she will fight Bengal polls from Nandigram
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January 18, 2021 22:44 IST
Announcement assumes significance not only because she is all set to take on Suvendu Adhikari in his fiefdom but also because Nandigram symbolises TMC’s struggle against forcible land acquisition in Left Front regime.
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Mamata Banerjee.
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Announcement assumes significance not only because she is all set to take on Suvendu Adhikari in his fiefdom but also because Nandigram symbolises TMC’s struggle against forcible land acquisition in Left Front regime.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she would contest the 2021 Assembly polls from Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district.
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The fact that Nadda chose Diamond Harbour as venue for his rally is significant. (Photo: PTI)
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is headed south in West Bengal. With Assembly elections just a few months away, the BJP has rolled out an army to besiege Mamata Banerjee’s bastion of South Bengal. The war to come has been heralded by an exchange of hot words between the saffron challengers and ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders in South Bengal where BJP national president JP Nadda was on a two-day tour. On Thursday, the convoys of Nadda and party’s general secretary in-charge of Bengal Kailash Vijayvargiya were attacked in Diamond Harbour, the Lok Sabha constituency of Mamata Banerjee’