Overview
- Marking the 18th anniversary, the TMC leader said Bengal would teach the BJP a lesson as voters did to the Left Front in 2011, vowing to defeat what he called politics of exclusion.
- Banerjee referred to the BJP as the “zamindars of Delhi” while issuing his challenge in a social media post.
- He accused the Election Commission’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal of being “silent invisible rigging,” likening it to the Left’s earlier “scientific rigging.”
- Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paid tribute to those killed in Nandigram, with both leaders using the commemoration to rally supporters.
- The 2007 Nandigram clashes left 14 dead during protests against proposed land acquisition for a chemical hub, an episode widely seen as pivotal to the TMC’s 2011 rise.