Nandigram: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee was taunted with slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers during her roadshow in Nandigram.
The BJP supporters heckled the Chief Minister as soon as her car left Reyapara for Nandigram. Banerjee’s car, however, did not stop and left the area even as the BJP workers continued to raise the slogans from behind the vehicle.
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This took place as the TMC chief crossed the venue of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s roadshow in the same area in Nandigram, which has become the most-watched assembly constituency in the run-up to the polls. The TMC chief is herself in the fray from Nandigram where she takes on her former protege Suvendu Adhikari, now with the BJP.
Both the TMC and BJP, locked in a fierce fight in the assembly polls, have left no stones unturned in impressing the electorate in Nandigram, which votes on April 1. With Tuesday being the last day of campaigning for the second phase, both parties are making their last-ditch efforts to impress the voters as 30 assembly constituencies will vote in this phase.
It may be recalled here that the TMC chief had walked out of an event on the occasion of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 125th birth anniversary after a section of the audience raised 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans. She also refused to deliver her speech during the event on January 23 also attended by the Prime Minister.
Voting for the 294-member West Bengal Assembly is being held in eight phases. The state recorded 84.13 percent polling in the first phase. The last phase will be held on April 29 while the results will be declared on May 2.