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Mar 12, 2021, 13:26 IST
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The BJP is posing a serious challenge to break the TMC in the same place where Mamata Banerjee fought fiercely and formed her party
Mamata Banerjee’s decision to contest the upcoming state Assembly elections from Nandigram mirrors a larger and more heated political battle panning out in Bengal. It is also the first time in her four-decade-old political career that the West Bengal CM has chosen to fight from outside her traditional south Kolkata seats.
One of the chief reasons for her decision is an attempt to even out the fissures that have emerged among the one lakh-odd party voters after her trusted lieutenant Suvendu Adhikari (who had won the seat in 2016) defected to the BJP on December 16 last year, three months before the polls were announced in Bengal. Adhikari, 50, will now take on the chief minister in Nandigram as it goes to polls on April 1 in the second phase of the