In Nandigram after injury, Mamata rips into Adhikari

Shubhadeep Choudhury

Tribune News Service

Nandigram, March 28

Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said she had unknowingly showered affection on a snake, who backstabbed her.

Banerjee said this while addressing a gathering at Nandigram on Sunday. Banerjee, who is contesting from Nandigram, returned to the constituency on Sunday after having visited the place last on March 10 when she had left for Kolkata abruptly after sustaining an injury on her left feet.

On Sunday, Mamata announced that she would be staying in Nandigram in a hired accommodation till the day of polling on April 1.

Notably, crowd presence in the ground, given the fact that it was Mamata’s first engagement with public on her return to Nandigram, was not up to the mark.

Organisers, however, explained the empty patches in Nandigram’s Reyapara Siva Temple ground saying, “Didi will be addressing another meeting in the constituency shortly after this one and many of her supporters will be listening to her in the other meeting at Birulia Bazaar.”

Mamata said the event being held at the Siva Temple Ground was not a political meeting. It was “Basanta Utsav” (Spring Festival) celebration, being held on the occasion of “Dol Yatra”. According to Bengali Hindu tradition, Lord Krishna and Radha played with colours on that day.