“See how they are shouting. All the media is here. It is insulting and humiliating. They are shouting because they don’t want me to hold the meeting. I beg your pardon. I will not be able to address you now. Tomorrow I will hold a rally here," said Mamata Banerjee.
A tense showdown unfolded in Bhabanipur on Saturday as Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari held rallies barely 100 metres apart, triggering clashes between supporters of both parties.
This was a typical Drama Queen - a role she played in Nandigram in 2021 and campaigned on wheel chair and as the results came in giving her the mandate; the wheel chair had vanished.
BJP leader Amit Malviya also weighed in, sharing a video of the incident and accusing Mamata Banerjee of losing her composure due to fears of her party's impending defeat.
"Everyone saw what happened. How our chief minister was insulted. This will go against the BJP," said Sovandeb Chatterjee, a senior TMC leader who was present at the public meeting trying to draw sympathy.
The incident took place at night near the Swaminarayan temple on Chakraberia Road.
"I apologise and I will leave. Please vote for me in protest of this,” said a visibly disturbed Banerjee, who left the stage.
“We have taken official permission to hold this meeting. I was away from Bhabanipur for about a month because I was campaigning for the entire Bengal. I was campaigning for about 200 seats, and Abhishek (Abhishek Banerjee, TMC All India general secretary and Lok Sabha MP) was also campaigning. I will take legal action against this,” said Banerjee before leaving the stage.
Earlier, during a BJP rally, Suvendu Adhikari, the party’s candidate for Bhabanipur, had alleged that TMC put up loudspeakers to disrupt his event.
The Bhabanipur Assembly seat, which falls within Kolkata, is set to see a showdown between Mamata Banerjee and Adhikari. Adhikari is also contesting from his home turf of Nandigram, where he had defeated Mamata by less than 2,000 votes in 2021.
After the EC’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, a total of 51,000 voters were deleted from the rolls in Bhabanipur, amounting to 21% of its electorate.
These deletions have put pressure on the TMC chief, whose victory margin in the 2021 by-election from Bhabanipur was about 58,800 votes.
In the cosmopolitan Bhabanipur, Mamata is expected to visit Jain temples and Sikh gurdwaras to attract non-Bengali voters. She has been holding padayatras and closed-door meetings with residents of high-rises, where there are considerable non-Bengali voters.
Frustration growing among TMC candidates:
“I will be defeated in Sagardighi. Jakir and Noor Alam will also be defeated from Jangipur and Samserganj assembly seats. Our candidate in Farakka will also be defeated. I can’t say about the entire state,” TMC's Sagardighi MLA Bayron Biswas said.
Bayron rushed to the Jangipur Polytechnic College strongroom, where EVMs have been kept under heavy deployment of Central Armed Paramilitary Forces (CAPF), on Friday midnight and expressed his grievances, alleging non-functioning of CCTVs and cameras installed inside and outside.
He also alleged that the power supply was disrupted at the strongroom premises for long hours.
He strongly protested against the prevailing situation at the strongroom and alleged that it was a pre-planned conspiracy to ensure the defeat of Trinamool Congress candidates.
But such remarks of a candidate is surprising and only displays frustration.
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