Nandigram: ‘Mamata will win with over 1L votes’
KOLKATA: Though the Trinamool Congress (TMC) list of candidates for 2021 Assembly election has not been released, however, the people of Nandigram are confident that Mamata Banerjee will win with more than one lakh votes. Nandigram will go for poll on April 1.
Banerjee had announced that she would contest from Nandigram and this has given an additional gush of adrenaline to the people of the area which till recently was considered to the fiefdom of BJP turncoat Suvendu Adhikari.
The graffiti requesting people to vote for Mamata Banerjee on more than 80 walls has been completed and Trinamool workers are taking out processions in the area regularly. “Do not caste your vote in favour of a traitor has become the most popular slogan”.
Tapas Maity, a local resident said: “Midnapore has never forgiven a traitor. Mamata di had given Suvendu everything. After enjoying all of it he has betrayed her, and the people of Nandigram will never forgive him.” Zahirul Sheikh said: “We are happy that this traitor has left Trinamool. If he has courage he should come and fight against didi from here.”
Fatima Bibi said: “We have always supported didi since the Nandigram incident took place and continue to support her. We get rice free and Swasthya Sathi card has helped us to get free treatment.”
For 50-year-old Dulal Manna Suvendu is “a paper tiger and does not have any power of his own.”
He said: “64 projects have been implemented for the development of Nandigram in the past 8 years. Our girls have got scholarship under Kanyasree. The students have got cycles under Sabuj Sathi. We had garlanded his pictures with shoes and he does not have the courage to come here.”
Another local Batashi Panda said: “In every meeting Suvendu is criticizing Abhishek. We know how much money Adhikari family had gathered over the years. He has hotels in Digha and Mandarmoni and is involved in extortion. Go to Haldia and ask people and they will tell you how he and his associates used to extort money from businessmen to ordinary shopkeepers.”
“The anger and hatred for Suvendu in Nandigram is mounting and under such a situation he has no other choice but to flee the area and make some one a scapegoat may be his brother Dibyendu,” said Sushil Manna, a local school teacher.