West Bengal polls: All eyes on battleground Nandigram

The Nandigram constituency in Bengal is the next battleground for the ruling TMC and BJP. The saffron party on Saturday challenged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to announce that she will contest the coming state election only from Nandigram if she is confident of her victory, prompting TMC to hit back and ask the saffron party to first name its chief ministerial candidate.Addressing a massive rally at Nandigram in East Midnapore, an overwhelmed West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced she would be contesting the 2021 assembly election from there. Nandigram, the nerve centre of Mamata's farmland agitation against a proposed SEZ and chemical hub, had propelled her to power in 2011