Published 12:20 IST, May 18th 2019
Can Mimi Chakraborty do a Mamata Banerjee of 1984 in Jadavpur?
The TMC is banking on 30-year-old Bengali film-star Mimi Chakraborty for a third consecutive win in Jadavpur, where party chief Mamata Banerjee, then a feisty young Congress leader
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prestigious Javpur parliamentary constituency in West Bengal has never blessed a political party for a third consecutive term. Can Trinamool Congress buck trend?
As this question was posed to an elderly TMC worker, his mind flashed back to 1984 -- when a young woman leer defeated an erudite lawyer and Communist leer.
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script is somewhat similar in 2019, with dition of a new actor.
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TMC is banking on 30-year-old Bengali film-star Mimi Chakraborty for a third consecutive win in Javpur, where party chief Mamata Banerjee, n a feisty young Congress leer, h trounced CPI(M) veteran and ted lawyer Somnath Chatterjee in 1984.
And this time, TMC's Chakraborty faces a stiff challenge from ar lawyer - former Kolkata mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya of CPI(M).
BJP, in a bid to win seat riding on its growing popularity, has fielded Anupam Hazra, a TMC parliamentarian in outgoing Lok Sabha who switched sides before election.
TMC this time fielded Chakraborty in place of Sugata Bose, a Harvard professor who won seat for party in 2014. Banerjee said he has t been allowed to contest elections this time by his university.
Roshows and meetings by young actor-turned-politician in constituency have drawn large crowds and TMC leership is claiming that popularity of candidate will be reflected in results.
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y are asserting that she will win by a bigger margin than her rewned predecessor from family of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who won by a little over 1.25 lakh votes.
TMC h won seat in 2009 too, when singer and poet Kabir Suman was its candidate.
Infighting among local satraps in Bhangar area of constituency is a cause of concern however, but TMC leership is confident that formidable election machinery of party will work cohesively to ensure a resounding win for ir candidate.
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Polling for constituency in seventh phase of elections will be on Sunday, May 19.
Bhattacharya, however, is of view that people's issues matter in elections most and t individual who is contesting.
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" Left parties have an edge over ors as or party is talking about basic issues affecting people," Bhattacharya told PTI.
He also accused BJP and TMC of polarising electorate on religious lines to sideline issues of jobs, plight of industries and law and order affecting common people.
BJP, which h just a 1.9 per cent vote share in 2009 general elections in Javpur, got 12 per cent of total votes polled in 2014 elections.
In 2014 elections, TMC got 45.92 per cent votes, while CPI(M) polled 36.08 per cent. Congress has t fielded any candidate from constituency this time.
Javpur has highest number of voters in West Bengal. It has 1816098 electors, of whom 909061 male, 906962 female and 75 from third
12:20 IST, May 18th 2019