Bengal elections: TMC manifesto today, Mamata to file nomination a day after
After publishing the TMC manifesto on Tuesday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will visit Nandigram and present her nomination from the high-risk seat in the Haldia administration building a day later.
After announcing TMC’s list of candidates on March 5, this will be his first tour to Nandigram where he will cross swords with his former protégé Suvendu Adhikari, who recently defected to the BJP. Sources said that Adhikari will present his nomination from his field of action on March 12.
TMC sources said the main thrust areas in the manifesto would be employment and “pro-people” projects. Banerjee is scheduled to hold at least two meetings with workers in Nandigram.
A prominent face of the anti-land acquisition movement in Nandigram in 2007, Adhikari has called Banerjee an outsider and expressed confidence that the constituency will elect its “bhumiputra.” “I will defeat her and send her back to Calcutta,” he said. He won the Nandigram seat in 2016, while another TMC candidate emerged victorious from the constituency in 2011.
Fulfilling his promise to fight from Nandigram, Banerjee has left his traditional seat in Bhawanipur, where he had won twice. A senior TMC leader said Monday: “To prove Adhikari wrong, Banerjee will stay in Nandigram and campaign door to door.” Sources said that Banerjee would remain there for many days.
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