West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. File | Picture Credit score: PTI
Urging the voters to think about her, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday (March 29, 2026) mentioned folks ought to think about her because the candidate contesting in all 294 seats of the West Bengal Meeting.
“Moms and sisters, will you vote for us or not? Overlook who’s your candidate, I’m the candidate in all places. We would be the ones forming the federal government,” the Trinamool Congress chairperson advised a gathering in Purulia district.
This was the primary time throughout the 2026 election marketing campaign that Ms. Banerjee mentioned she was a candidate in all of the 294 Meeting seats. Virtually 10 years in the past, forward of the 2016 Meeting polls, when a number of Trinamool leaders, together with Ministers, had been caught on digital camera accepting money for occasion funds within the Narada sting movies, the Chief Minister had made related remarks that she was the candidate in all seats.
Ms. Banerjee is the center and soul of the Trinamool Congress and the marketing campaign of the occasion is centered round her. The 2021 Meeting polls in West Bengal, the place the Trinamool Congress was efficiently in a position to withstand the assault by the Bharatiya Janata Occasion, was constructed on the marketing campaign “Banglar Nijer Mein Ki Chai” (Bengal needs its personal daughter).”
The Trinamool Congress has fielded candidates in 291 out of the 294 seats and left the three seats to its ally, Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha. Ms. Banerjee is contesting from Bhabanipur in Kolkata, a constituency she had represented since 2011.
Throughout her speech at Manbazar in Purulia, Ms. Banerjee retorted to the remarks made by Union House Minister Amit Shah on Friday the place he had mentioned that the Chief Minister all the time performed the ‘sufferer card’. “Generally she talks about her harm; generally she abuses the Election Fee. However the folks of West Bengal now perceive her sufferer card politics very nicely,” Mr. Shah had mentioned.
The Chief Minister mentioned she had repeatedly returned from the brink of dying and questioned if the BJP leaders wished her lifeless.
“They’re saying that I roam round with a bandage throughout the polls. I’ve repeatedly returned from the brink of dying. Go and examine the report of the physician…Did you intentionally injure my leg throughout the 2021 elections? I campaigned in a wheelchair. Are you planning to kill me?” Ms. Banerjee mentioned.
shout slogans
Addressing a gathering at Nowda in Murshidabad district, Trinamool Congress basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee confronted some slogans from the group. Some within the crowd had been upset in regards to the re-nomination of sitting MLA Sahina Mumtaz Begum, alleging that she had did not ship throughout her tenure.
Warning occasion supporters that indiscipline wouldn’t be tolerated, Mr. Banerjee mentioned if the occasion supporters didn’t just like the candidate, they need to imagine that he was the candidate.
“If anybody is dissatisfied with the candidate, then assume that I, Abhishek Banerjee, am contesting from right here,” mentioned the Diamond Harbor MP.
Revealed – March 29, 2026 07:16 pm IST