by Jaideep Mazumdar - Apr 22, 2021 05:22 AM BJP supporters at a rally. Snapshot The reiteration of nationalistic credentials by the electorate of Barrackpore can hurt the Trinamool very badly at the hustings. This ancient river port which the British chose to set up as their first military station on Indian soil is looking forward to an end to the convulsions created by a recent mutiny. Barrackpore has been a seat of mutinies, the first recorded one in 1824 (read this and this), followed by the one ignited by Mangal Pandey in 1857. The latest was the one senior Trinamool leader and former Barrackpore Lok Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi.