Mamata Banerjee vs Suvendu Adhikari: Battleground Nandigram heats up

As Nandigram goes to vote within the excessive octane West Bengal State Assembly elections on Thursday, the campaigning for the excessive profile seat ended on an intense notice. As per studies, the cut-outs of Suvendu Adhikari are far more than these of Mamata Banerjee. Adhikari, Mamata Banerjee’s former aide, stop the TMC and joined the BJP few months previous to the meeting elections.
The street resulting in the home the place Mamata Banerjee stayed within the closing days of campaigning in West Bengal was crammed with saffron flags with ‘Om’ written on them. The TMC operatives, nevertheless, haven’t but eliminated the flags. Ahead of the conclusion of campaigning, the loudspeakers blared ‘Bole Bole Nandigram, Jai Shri Ram! (Nandigram says Jai Shri Ram)’. When Mamata Banerjee’s automotive handed by, the BJP staff loudly chanted Jai Shri Ram. Banerjee, has made her disdain for ‘Jai Shri Ram’ fairly evident.
Earlier in January, when she bought on stage to handle a gathering on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose start anniversary, she was greeted with Jai Shri Ram slogans. She refused to handle the group and accused them of making an attempt to insult her.
Meanwhile, Suvendu Adhikari has minced no phrases to accuse Banerjee of Muslim appeasement. Addressing an election rally on twenty ninth March, Adhikari had mentioned that if Mamata wins, she’s going to flip Bengal into mini-Pakistan.
TMC chief Sheikh Alam had final week mentioned that Muslims are 30% and others are 70% and if these 30% Muslims within the nation come collectively, Hindus can have nowhere to go within the nation. “We form government with 30% votes, they will form govt with the support of 70% votes, they should be ashamed of themselves. If 30% of people in India come together, we can form 4 Pakistans. If all the Muslims in India move to one side of the country, where the rest of the people go, where the 70% people will go?”, the TMC chief mentioned.
In 2016, when Suvendu Adhikari fought from TMC ticket, he had secured 134,623 votes and had gained by a margin of 81,230. Left had come second with 53,393 votes and BJP stood third at 10,713. However, in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, TMC’s Tamluk candidate Dibyendu Adhikari, who can also be brother to Suvendu Adhikari, gained 130,659 votes and BJP got here second with 62,268 votes. Left had come third with lower than 10,000 votes.
As per official data, Nandigram has simply 257,299 registered voters. If the viral photographs floating on social media are to be believed, Mamata Banerjee is about to lose Nandigram as per the inner survey of IPAC, ballot strategist Prashant Kishor’s company, employed by TMC to make Mamata win. TMC has shortly refuted the viral photographs and claimed that BJP is ‘losing big’ and therefore sharing ‘fake images’.
But as is clear, every votes counts.