BJP’s surgical strike on the TMC is bearing fruits as Mamata struggles to seek out proper candidates for the election

On the day the Election Commission of India (ECI) introduced the eight-phase polling dates for the West Bengal meeting elections, recent troubles began brewing for CM Mamata Banerjee and her social gathering TMC. While the large stalwarts had already jumped out of the sinking, derelict ship of TMC a lot earlier than the dates have been introduced, the remaining social gathering leaders, afraid and sensing an inevitable hazard of dropping the deposits are refusing to battle the elections.Sitting MLA from Mongolkot in East Burdwan district, Siddiqullah Chowdhury – one of many key faces behind the Nandigram anti-land acquisition motion – has determined to not contest from his personal constituency within the upcoming meeting polls.Citing ‘indifferent behavior’, ‘unorganized functioning of the district leadership’ and ‘lack of courtesy’ as the explanations for his determination to ditch Mamata on the eleventh hour, Chowdhury stated, “I have informed everything about the poor leadership in the district to our party chief Mamata Banerjee. I felt that some party leaders in the district are not performing the way they should considering the crucial polls.”Chowdhury, who can be the top of a company named Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind, has been a trusted lieutenant of Mamata and one of the vital influential minority leaders of the state. In the 2016 meeting polls, Siddiqullah Chowdhury gained the Mongolkot seat by defeating his nearest rival, Sahajahan Chowdhury of the CPI (M), by a margin of practically 12,000 votes.Mamata had then made him a cabinet minister and he was given the portfolio of minister of state (unbiased cost) in mass training, library and parliamentary affairs. The cabinet minister had toed Mamata’s line on a number of contentious points resembling CAA and NRC by protesting vociferously and talking for TMC and Mamata. Thus his determination of backtracking places Mamata in a pickle as her useful resource arsenal continues to put on a skinny look.Such is the desperation of TMC supremo that in January, she introduced her determination to contest the upcoming Assembly elections from two seats viz. Bhowanipur and Nandigram. While the previous is her incumbent seat, the latter is the seat of heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari who final 12 months switched the flanks to BJP, and at present is the largest thorn in the way in which for Mamata.Adhikari holds the important thing to your entire South Bengal area and BJP is relying on him to reap the votes which he as soon as did for Mamata. With no troopers left within the social gathering, Mamata took the choice upon her herself to battle the election in opposition to Adhikari.Read extra: Mamata will probably be contesting on two seats and dropping each for two very completely different reasonsHowever, quickly after her announcement, BJP threw a dicey problem her manner and so far, neither Mamata nor TMC has been capable of give you any retort to it.Reported by TFI, Senior BJP chief Kailash Vijayvargiya challenged CM Mamata by asking her to repose her religion within the Nandigram seat by solely contesting from there.“Mamata Banerjee has announced to contest assembly elections from Nandigram. But, she did not say that she will contest from here only! If she is confident of her victory, make this announcement too! … Otherwise, it will be understood that you do not trust Nandigram!,” tweeted Vijayvargia.Recently, former cricketer and state minister, LaxmiRatan Shukla, after resigning from Mamata’s cabinet determined to not contest the upcoming elections on TMC ticket. Another TMC MLA from Bardhaman Dakhin Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay, who’s a former minister for the departments of Technical Education & Training and Science & Technology & Biotechnology, has refused to contest the election on well being points.The surgical strike by BJP on TMC yielded the specified outcomes as biggies like Suvendu Adhikari, former TMC MP Sunil Mondal, and former social gathering MLAs Arindam Bhattacharya and Vaishali Dalmia – all joined the BJP to dent Mamata’s fortunes within the upcoming elections. With different TMC leaders getting chilly ft, the street forward seems more and more powerful, arduous, and bumpy for Didi as she scurries round to carry her tainted legacy.