Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s announcement earlier this week at Nandigram, the epicentre of the farmers’ movement that toppled the Left Front government in 2011, that she will contest the coming Assembly elections from there is as much dramatic as pregnant with political significance. It’s a desperate ploy to take on the rising BJP that is locked in a now-or-never battle to capture Bengal. The Trinamool chief wants to kill several birds with one stone. She seeks to hit the BJP where it hurts it most by throwing the gauntlet at her key leader till recently and now a star BJP campaigner, Suvendu Adhikari, in his home turf. At the same time, she frantically wants to deflect the anti-incumbency factor by reviving the memories of the Nandigram-Singur movement to regain lost ground. Further, Mamata is on a rather shaky ground in her constituency in Kolkata, Bhowanipore, this time around. A sizeable section of the electorate in this seat are from other states and known to be BJP sympathisers.