What explains Mamata’s poll entry in Nandigram?
Speaking at a rally in Nandigram on January 18, West Bengal chief minister and All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) president Mamata Banerjee announced that she would contest the forthcoming assembly elections from Nandigram along with Bhabanipur, the assembly constituency (AC) in Kolkata she currently represents. Banerjee’s decision comes in the wake of the Nandigram’s incumbent MLA and erstwhile AITC heavyweight, Suvendu Adhikari, defecting to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
What explains this decision? Here are four factors which can help us answer this question.