Bhawanipur Bypolls: Mamata Banerjee Appeals To People To Do This If They Want To See Her As CM

Bhawanipur Bypolls: West Bengal CM asks people to go out and vote if they want to see her continue working as their CM. She has asked them to go out and vote, even if it rains.

CM Mamata Banerjee

New Delhi: West Bengal's Bhavanipur assembly seat is set to go for bypolls on September 30. All eyes in the country are on this assembly seat as WB Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee herself is fighting for it. She needs to win this assembly seat if she wants to retain her post as West Bengal CM.

Ahead of the assembly bypolls, CM Mamata Banerjee has been constantly appealing to the people to vote for her. On Thursday. she described Bhavanipur as a 'Mini India' and said people from many communities live here.

Mamata Banerjee said that she has emerged victorious the assembly election six times from this constituency. She further requested to people, "If you want to continue seeing me as your Chief Minister, please go out of your homes and vote, even if it rains."

Mamata Attacks BJP

Earlier in the day, while addressing a public meeting in Bhavanipur, the West Bengal CM took a jibe at the BJP. She said, "The BJP has always lied that we don't allow doing Durga Pooja and Lakshmi Pooja in the state. It is a 'Jumla Party' (fraudulent party)."

Mamata Banerjee is contesting the assembly bypolls from Bhavanipur Constituency. She is pitted against BJP candidate Priyanka Tibrewal and Left Front's Srijib Biswas for the seat.

CM Mamata said, "Narendra Modi ji, Amit Shah ji, we will not let you do to India what Taliban is doing to Afghanistan. India will remain united...Gandhiji, Netaji,Swami Vivekananda, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Guru Nanak ji, Gautam Buddha, Jain... all will live together peacefully in the country. We will not let anyone divide India."

It may be recalled that Sovandeb Chattopadhyay of Trinamool Congress, who won the Bhavanipur assembly seat in the last assembly elections, had resigned making way for Mamata to contest for this seat. Bypolls for this constituency are being held due to his resignation. Mamata Banerjee had lost the assembly elections from Nandigram constituency to BJP's Shubhendu Adhikari. She will now have to win an assembly seat by November 5 to continue as WB CM.