Mamata Banerjee to meet non-Bengali voters in Bhabanipur on September 16

In a bid to woo the voters from the non-Bengali communities, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is set to meet the people from the non-Bengali community in a special campaign programme in the Bhabanipur Constituency on September 16, ahead of the by-poll in the constituency.

Bhabanipur has a cosmopolitan population with Marwari, Punjabi, and Gujarati communities, apart from Bengalis. The effort has been taken by the Trinamool Congress leadership to create an opportunity to know the grievances of the people.

“West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee will directly talk to community members to know their problems and complaints. In ward no. 72, the meeting will be organized by the Trinamool Congress supremo with various non-Bengali community members. Despite a huge margin by Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay in Bhabanipur, in ward numbers 70 and 74, Trinamool Congress has trailed in the recently held assembly polls. The Trinamool Supremo does not want to keep any stones unturned this time, people close to the development told ET.


West Bengal Chief Minister and candidate from Bhabanipur, Mamata Banerjee made a sudden visit to seek blessings at Sola Ana Masjid of the constituency in Ward No 77.

Slamming Mamata Banerjee, Amit Malviya, co-incharge West Bengal, took to twitter and said, “If you thought Bhabanipur was a “no contest” and Mamata Banerjee was confident of winning hands down, forget it. She is sweating. This visit to Sola Ana Masjid is not “sudden” but a planned visit to seek votes from ward 77. In the next few
days, she will hop from booth to booth.”

BJP is also trying to bring the non-Bengali voters to its fold and thus utilize the face of Priyanka Tibrewal.

Meanwhile, BJP Bhabanipur candidate Priyanka Tibrewal filed her nomination for the Bhabanipur by-poll today amid much fanfare and procession. Amid drums beating, Priyanka danced to the tune of ‘dhunchi’, a common ritual during Durga Puja in Bengal, ahead of visiting the nomination centre. She also offered puja before filing her nomination. She was accompanied by BJP MP Arjun Singh, Leader of Opposition in Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari, former MP Dinesh Trivedi among others.

CPI-M candidate Srijib Biswas also filed his nomination today. Today was the last date for filing nominations for the by-election.