Mamata Banerjee, the Colonel of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), won from the constituency of the Nandigram assembly and defeated the Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP with 1,200 votes.
TMC Supremo Mamata Banerjee. (File Photo: PTI)
After a lengthy head-to-head battle throughout the day of results, Trinamool Congress Colonel Mamata Banerjee has finally won out of the coveted Nandigram Assembly constituency. She defeated BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari by 1,200 votes.
Suvendu Adhikari led against Mamata Banerjee for a long time, and at one time the gap was nearly 10,000 votes.
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This time the election campaign in Nandigram was probably the most coveted of all election campaigns in West Bengal. Prime Minister Mamata Banerjee moved from her traditional seat in Bhabanipur to Nandigram, where she was challenged by her former close advisor, Suvendu Adhikari, who is a local and BJP candidate from the seat.
From Nandigram, Suvendu Adhikari had teamed up with Mamata Banerjee in 2007 to bring about the Nandigram movement. In four years, Mamata Banerjee became a formidable force and carried out the 34-year reign of the Left Front in Bengal.
Mamata Banerjee risked her political future by taking over the Adhikaris in Nandigram. Speculation that the family might be split over loyalty to Mamata Banerjee was allayed when Suvendu Adhikari’s father and family patriarch Sisir Adhikari joined the BJP.
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