Bengal Assembly polls 2021: Mamata needs to hold on to Murshidabad to keep Congress at bay
For Mamata Banerjee to create a "Congress-mukt" Bengal, it is imperative she establishes her hegemony in Murshidabad, the land of the nawabs. And the 2021 Assembly polls provides her with that opportunity when 11 seats in the district votes on Thursday. In 2011, the year of "poribartan", Murshidabad, with a 68 per cent Muslim population, sided mostly with the Congress. Mamata could win only one seat. Advertisement Mamata handed over the reins of Murshidabad district to her then trusted aide, Suvendu Adhikari, in 2015. Dissension within the Khan Chowdhury family had made it e...
Source: telegraphindia.com