West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination papers from the high-profile Nandigram Assembly seat in Purba Medinipur district. The TMC chief is about to problem her rival and BJP candidate Suvendu Adhikari who will file the nomination on March 12.
Before submitting nomination, the TMC supremo Mamata arrived in Nandigram and commenced her ballot marketing campaign by visiting a temple and a mausoleum. She is predicted to launch TMC manifesto on March 11 on the event of Mahashivaratri.
Vacating her personal seat of Bhowanipore in Kolkata, Mamata earlier this month had introduced to contest from the Nandigram seat within the upcoming West Bengal meeting polls.
She introduced her candidature from the Nandigram seat after her shut aide for years, Suvendu Adhikari switched sides to the Bharatiya Janata Party and introduced to contest polls from the identical constituency.
This turned Nandigram seat a very powerful battleground as it’s the stronghold of Suvendu Adhikari who just lately joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Notably, he had gained the identical seat as a TMC candidate in 2016 elections. Adhikari is taken into account to be a really strongman on this constituency, who was not simply the face of the Trinamool, but additionally the face of the get together’s land protest on the bottom.
The state meeting election can be held for all 294 seats whereby the voting will happen in 1,01,916 polling stations throughout West Bengal. Elections to the 294-member Assembly can be held in eight phases, from March 27 to April 29. The counting of votes will happen on May 2. The magic determine to be the ruling get together within the West Bengal Assembly is 148.
