West Bengal Polls: Mamata Banerjee files nomination from Nandigram
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Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 14:27 [IST]
Kolkata, Mar 10: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee filed her nomination papers from the Nandigram seat on Wednesday, as the stage is set for the Battle Royale in the constituency.
She would then attend a workers meet and return to Kolkata on March 11.
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, whose name was announced as the BJP candidate from the seat on Saturday, will file the nomination on March 12. After filing nomination papers, he will address a rally there, BJP leader Kanishka Panda said.
Nandigram, the cradle of the anti-land acquisition movement that catapulted Banerjee to power in 2011, will witness her once protege Suvendu Adhikari taking on her on April 1, in the second of the eight phases of polling. For 50-year-old Adhikari, the contest in Nandigram will be a fight for his political survival as he had vowed to defeat Banerjee by over 50,000 vote
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee during an election campaign in Nandigram on March 9.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has filed her nomination papers from the high-profile Nandigram Assembly seat in in Purba Medinipur district on Wednesday. Mamata will cross swords with her former close aide-turned-bete noire Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP in Nandigram. She arrived here on Tuesday and visited a temple and a mausoleum.
The TMC supremo, after addressing a party workers meeting on Tuesday, paid her reverence at the local mazar, popular among members of the minority community, and then offered prayers at Maa chandi temple nearby. As she entered the temple, women, who lined up next to the shrine, blew conch shells to greet her. At the mausoleum, too, she was extended a warm welcome. Next, Banerjee visited a roadside stall, where she prepared tea for the customers, much to the astonishment of the shop owner.