Abhishek BAnerjee stated the outcomes of 2021 elections in Nandigram have been “falsified”.
Kolkata:
The Trinamool Congress held an enormous rally right this moment in Bengal’s Nandigram, venturing into the territory it misplaced to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari within the state elections. The approaching panchayat polls within the state might be seen as litmus check earlier than subsequent yr’s normal election and the Trinamool is set to place up a great present within the space the place Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had misplaced a straight battle together with her aide-turned-rival two years in the past.
Get together MP and Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, who led the 20-km rally in Nandigram as a part of the get together’s Nabo Jowar (New Wave) marketing campaign, alleged that Suvendu Adhikari had received by “load-shedding” — hinting at electoral malpractice.
“The outcomes of 2021 Bengal elections in Nandigram have been falsified. The folks of this land know precisely what occurred,” he stated. Within the subsequent election, the Trinamool candidate will win by over 50,000 votes, added the chief, who’s on a statewide public outreach march referred to as the “Jono Sanjog Yatra”.
Mr Adhikari is but to reply.
Whereas Mr Banerjee was touring Nandigram, Mr Adhikari had visited Garh Salboni in Jhargram district, the place the Trinamool chief’s convoy was attacked final week, and met households of the folks arrested within the case.
“The CPM authorities did it right here, and now the TMC authorities is doing it — detaining folks with out trial. I ended it that point, and can do it now as nicely,” the BJP chief was quoted as saying by information company Press Belief of India.
“Poor persons are being tortured right here. This can’t go on. Individuals of all political events are there inside the Kurmi group. Divisions are being created between tribals and Kurmis,” Mr Adhikari stated, promising the households of these arrested all types of help, reported PTI.
The Nandigram and Singur agitations in opposition to land acquisition had catapulted Mamata Banerjee to energy in 2011, after CPM’s 35-year regime within the state. Suvendu Adhikari, an aide of Mamata Banerjee through the Nandigram agitation, stop the get together in 2021 and joined the BJP.
Within the elections that adopted, Ms Banerjee had contested from Nandigram – a transfer that had drawn eyeballs and recharged the get together.
A case difficult Mr Adhikari’s victory within the election is pending within the Calcutta Excessive Court docket.
However Nandigram is again in focus once more forward of subsequent yr’s normal election, which might be essential for Trinamool.
Within the 2019 election, the BJP had managed to win 18 of Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats – pushing CPM to the third spot within the state and posing severe problem to Trinamool.