Considered a stronghold of the BJP, Raju Bista, originally from Manipur, is the BJP candidate contesting for a second time. This time, there is a three-cornered fight –– Trinamool candidate Gopal Lama, a former bureaucrat and son of the soil is pitted against Congresss Munish Tamang and BJP s Bista.
Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, actively engages in a public outreach campaign in North Bengal s Chalsa, where she interacts with tea garden workers, children, and students. Ahead of her forthcoming rally in Coochbehar districts Mathabhanga, Banerjee discusses the pressing issue of unemployment among tea garden workers and promises intervention by the state government post-elections.
The promise of implementing CAA was a major electoral plank for BJP in the last Lok Sabha and assembly polls in West Bengal. The community, with more than one crore voters in the state, is spread over Nadia, Cooch Behar, North and South 24 Parganas districts bordering Bangladesh. The Trinamool Supremo went on to say she always cared about the Matua community and when Boroma, the matriarch of the Matua community, was alive, she bore all the expenses of Boroma s treatment.