Updated: March 10, 2021 1:05 pm
West Bengal Elections 2021: Suvendu Adhikari is also hitting back at Mamata with equal measure from his residence turf, exactly where he opened a new party workplace earlier today. Adhikari will file his nomination from Nandigram on March 12.
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Mamata Banerjee is pitted against her former confidante Suvendu Adhikari, who joined the BJP final December, in the higher-profile Nandigram seat that will go to poll on April 1 in Phase-II. Without naming Adhikari even when, Banerjee on Tuesday mentioned she had produced up her thoughts to contest either from the Singur or Nandigram — the two cradles of anti-land acquisition movement — that catapulted her to energy in 2011. She mentioned she decided to contest from Nandigram simply because of overwhelming response of the people today. “I have heard some people are calling me an outsider in Nandigram. I am amazed. I was born and brought up in the neighbouring Birbhum district, and the person who is calling me an outsider was born in Midnapore. Today I have become an outsider, and those coming from Gujarat have become insiders in Bengal,” she told a gathering of TMC workers. (PTI)