Singur and Nandigram, the very constituencies which propelled the rise of Mamata Banerjee in Bengal, are going to be the drivers of her downfall

Singur and Nandigram – Mamata Banerjee’s two beloved constituencies, each of which she is seemingly set to lose this time round. Singur and Nandigram made Mamata Banerjee what she is. The feisty insurgent, the road politician with a ground-connect with the folks of Bengal. The obliterator of Left in Bengal. Mamata Banerjee might be described in some ways. Now, nonetheless, she is a mere defeatist, with losses on each seats wanting like an apparent certainty. The BJP has, in a brief span of time, learnt how politics is to be executed in West Bengal. If she does certainly lose Singur and Nandigram, Mamata would successfully be pondering of retirement from politics.In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had a lead of 10,500 votes over the TMC within the Singur meeting section. Singur falls beneath the Hooghly Parliamentary Constituency the place TMC’s Dr Ratna De (NAG) had been defeated by BJP’s state Mahila Morcha president Locket Chatterjee. More than eleven years after Tata Motors was compelled to maneuver its Nano automotive undertaking out of West Bengal’s Singur, ghosts of Mamata Banerjee’s anti-land acquisition motion, orchestrated in opposition to the left authorities, are coming again to hang-out TMC within the area. Singur, one of many seven constituencies within the Hooghly Lok Sabha seat, the place the Nano plant was situated, proved to be a turning level in Banerjee’s political profession in 2011 when it helped her finish the 34-year-long hegemonic rule of the Left Front within the state. However, farmers of Singur have been regretting their help for Mamata’s political motion in 2008, ever since. [PC:NDTV]Four-time MLA Rabindranath Bhattacharya, fielded by Mamata Banerjee from Singur constituency in 2011 and 2016, who received her the seat and was himself the thoughts and soul behind the Singur agitation, is now being fielded by the BJP. Already trailing in 2019, the TMC’s Singur fortunes are all set to be tossed into the trash can, now that the BJP has fielded Bhattacharya. Prior to Bhattacharya becoming a member of the BJP, the saffron social gathering in any case had a bonus in Singur by 2019. Now, in 2021, that benefit appears to have risen manifold. So that’s that. Singur is sealed for the BJP.Read extra: Mamata is combating to avoid wasting the very place that propelled her to powerWe now come to Nandigram – the opposite TMC bastion which was stolen from proper beneath Mamata Banerjee’s nostril not too long ago by the saffron social gathering. In Nandigram, the place the TMC had a lead of 62,000 votes over the BJP in 2019, Suvendu Adhikari switching to the saffron fold has modified all of the equations. He was thought-about one of many few leaders in Banerjee’s social gathering to have a mass base of his personal. Adhikari and his household has a large affect among the many voters of Nandigram and is his citadel. Mamata Banerjee is contesting in opposition to him and is sure to lose. In reality, the very function of the BJP to problem her to contest from Nandigram was to make sure that not solely does Didi get ousted because the chief minister, however can be unable to get elected as an MLA.Mamata Banerjee is attempting to place up plenty of bravadoes. It should be talked about that the as soon as ‘rebel’ chief of Bengal has been compelled to behave in accordance with the narrative set for her by the BJP. Had the BJP not thrown a problem at her, she would most positively not even consider coming into the stronghold of Suvendu Adhikari, whereas abandoning her different seat in South Kolkata.Life has come a full circle for Mamata Banerjee. The two seats – Singur and Nandigram, which propelled her to energy will now additionally end in her downfall.