West Bengal Polls: Mamata Banerjee files nomination from Nandigram India Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 14:27 [IST] Kolkata, Mar 10: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee filed her nomination papers from the Nandigram seat on Wednesday, as the stage is set for the Battle Royale in the constituency. She would then attend a workers'' meet and return to Kolkata on March 11. BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, whose name was announced as the BJP candidate from the seat on Saturday, will file the nomination on March 12. "After filing nomination papers, he will address a rally there," BJP leader Kanishka Panda said. Nandigram, the cradle of the anti-land acquisition movement that catapulted Banerjee to power in 2011, will witness her once protege Suvendu Adhikari taking on her on April 1, in the second of the eight phases of polling. For 50-year-old Adhikari, the contest in Nandigram will be a fight for his political survival as he had vowed to defeat Banerjee by over 50,000 votes in the seat or quit politics.