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Trinamool Congress wide caput and nephew of enactment chairperson Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Banerjee, connected Monday (December 1, 2025) refuted speculations of contesting upcoming Assembly polls from Nandigram.
“I volition contention from wherever the enactment asks maine to, whether Nandigram, Darjeeling oregon anyplace else,” the Diamond Harbour MP said. Union Minister of State and elder BJP person Sukanata Majumdar has fuelled speculations successful the governmental circles by saying that Mr. Banerjee whitethorn contention from Nandigram Assembly constituency successful 2026 Assembly polls.
Leader of Opposition successful West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari had defeated Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Nandigram successful 2021 Assembly polls by a borderline of 1956 votes. After the decision from Nandigram successful May 2021 Ms. Banerjee was elected to the State Assembly from Bhabanipur Assembly spot successful Kolkata successful bypolls that was held successful September 2021.
“He (Sukanta Majumdar) whitethorn beryllium expressing his ain wish, but matters concerning AITC’s interior decisions are for the enactment unsocial to decide.. And if Sukanta Majumdar were arsenic politically assured arsenic helium claims, helium would not person scraped done with a borderline of hardly 8,000 votes (in the Lok Sabha polls from Balurghat),” Mr. Banerjee said. Abhishek Banerjee is simply a 3 word MP from Diamond Harbour and successful the 2024 Lok Sabha polls helium won the spot by a borderline of implicit 7 lakh votes.
Suvendu challenges Mamata from Bhabanipur
Amidst the claims arsenic to who volition contention from where, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari erstwhile again challenged the Chief Minister to contention from Bhabanipur.
“I volition decision her ( Chief Minister) from Bhabanipur. The lone information is that she should not tally distant and contention from Metiabruz (a number dominated constituency successful the southbound occidental portion of the city),”Mr. Adhikari said.
The BJP person said that if the Chief Minister contests from Metiabruz past helium cannot situation her and it volition beryllium for ISF (Indian Secular Front) and different parties to decision her.
Ms. Banerjee had contested and won Bhabanipur in September 2021 by a borderline of 58, 832 votes securing 72 % of the votes. The LOP remarks presume value due to the fact that successful the 2024 Lok Sabha polls the BJP lowered the spread with Trinamool Congress successful the Bhabanipur Assembly. The ruling enactment pb dropped to 8,297 successful 2024 from 58, 832 votes successful 2021.
Responding to the Mr. Adhikari challenge, Kolkata Mayor and Senior Trinamool Congress person Firhad Hakim challenged anyone successful the BJP, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi to decision him from Kolkata Port constituency. Kolkata Port is different number dominated constituency which is located adjacent to Metiabruz.
