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Urging the electorate to person religion successful her, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Sunday (March 29, 2026) said radical should see her arsenic the campaigner contesting successful each 294 seats of the West Bengal Assembly.
“Mothers and sisters, volition you ballot for america oregon not? Forget who is your candidate, I americium the campaigner everywhere. We volition beryllium the ones forming the government,” the Trinamool Congress chairperson told a gathering successful Purulia district.
This was the archetypal clip during the 2026 predetermination run that Ms. Banerjee said she was a campaigner successful each the 294 Assembly seats. Almost 10 years ago, up of the 2016 Assembly polls, erstwhile respective Trinamool leaders, including Ministers, were caught connected camera accepting currency for enactment funds successful the Narada sting videos, the Chief Minister had made akin remarks that she was the campaigner successful each seats.
Ms. Banerjee is the bosom and psyche of the Trinamool Congress and the run of the enactment is centred astir her. The 2021 Assembly polls successful West Bengal, wherever the Trinamool Congress was successfully capable to defy the onslaught by the Bharatiya Janata Party, was built connected the run “Banglar Nijer Mein Ki Chai [Bengal wants its ain daughter].”
The Trinamool Congress has fielded candidates successful 291 retired of the 294 seats and near the 3 seats to its ally, Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha. Ms. Banerjee is contesting from Bhabanipur successful Kolkata, a constituency she had represented since 2011.
During her code astatine Manbazar successful Purulia, Ms. Banerjee retorted to the remarks made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected Friday wherever helium had said that the Chief Minister ever played the ‘victim card’. “Sometimes she talks astir her injury; sometimes she abuses the Election Commission. But the radical of West Bengal present recognize her unfortunate paper authorities precise well,” Mr. Shah had said.
The Chief Minister said she had repeatedly returned from the brink of decease and wondered if the BJP leaders privation her dead.
“They are saying that I roam astir with a bandage during the polls. I person repeatedly returned from the brink of death. Go and cheque the study of the doctor...Did you deliberately injure my limb during the 2021 elections? I campaigned successful a wheelchair. Are you readying to termination me?” Ms. Banerjee said.
Shout slogans
Addressing a gathering astatine Nowda successful Murshidabad district, Trinamool Congress wide caput Abhishek Banerjee faced immoderate slogans from the crowd. Some successful the assemblage were upset astir the re-nomination of sitting MLA Sahina Mumtaz Begum, alleging that she had failed to present during her tenure
Warning enactment supporters that indiscipline would not beryllium tolerated, Mr. Banerjee said if the enactment supporters did not similar the candidate, they should judge that helium was the candidate.
“If anyone is dissatisfied with the candidate, past deliberation that I, Abhishek Banerjee, americium contesting from here,” said the Diamond Harbour MP.
