{"id":330316,"date":"2021-01-18T11:33:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330316"},"modified":"2021-01-18T11:33:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:33:40","slug":"mamata-banerjee-decides-to-contest-west-bengal-polls-from-nandigram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mamata-banerjee-decides-to-contest-west-bengal-polls-from-nandigram\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata Banerjee decides to contest West Bengal polls from Nandigram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305725 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee.jpg 715w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-631x420.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/>Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced that she would contest upcoming state Assembly Election 2021 from Nandigram.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mamata made the announcement while addressing a public rally in Nandigram-the Assembly constituency earlier represented by TMC leader Suvendu Adhikari who recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)..\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While addressing a rally, the TMC leader said her party would return to power by winning the upcoming elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mamata said she was not worried about those joining rival parties as they were not there when the Trinamool Congress was formed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Chief Minister further said that she may contest the polls from two constituencies, the other one being Bhabanipur in Kolkata, which is her home turf. \u201cIn case I am unable to contest from Bhabanipur someone else will. I don&#8217;t want to neglect Bhabanipur also,&#8221; she added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reacting to the news, BJP\u2019s Amit Malviya in a tweet said, \u201cMamata Banerjee\u2019s decision to shift seat from Bhowanipore to Nandigram, for the first time in 10 years, indicates her political nervousness&#8230;Will she explain why IPS Satyajit Bandopadhyay, chargesheeted by CBI for firing on protesting farmers in Nandigram, was inducted in TMC?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced that she would contest upcoming state Assembly Election 2021 from Nandigram.\u00a0 Mamata made the announcement while addressing a public rally in Nandigram-the Assembly constituency earlier represented by TMC leader Suvendu Adhikari who recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)..\u00a0 While addressing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[1889,13856,13855],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330318,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330316\/revisions\/330318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}