Nandigram Diary: The bustling town has been mixing every conversation with poll-talk
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Ever since West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced at a rally on Monday that she would contest the upcoming elections from this assembly constituency, this small, bustling town about 130 km south of Kolkata in Purba Medinipur district has been mixing every conversation with poll-talk. Garrulous, scarf-wrapped Pijush Karmakar is no different.
A statue of Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in Nandigram. Strangely, if only for those familiar with the Bengali obsession for Tagore, Vivekananda, Subhas Bose statues, there seems to be none of the three, at least in the main thoroughfares of Nandigram.