Curtains came down on the high decibel campaign for the 30 Assembly seats going to polls in the first phase of Bengal elections on Thursday. Both the BJP and the Trinamool Congress went all out against each other claiming the State would collapse if their rivals came to power. Pre poll violence claimed three lives and left over dozen others injured in the past 24 hours.
While TMC chief Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of splurging money and using muscle power and asked the people to remain on guard against the BJP’s alleged nefarious designs, the Home Minister led his party’s campaign rolling out a long list of promises for Jangalmahal area.
Thirty seats across tribal-dominated Purulia, Bankura, Jhargram, Purba Medinipur (Part 1) and Paschim Medinipur (Part 1) districts, once the citadel of the Left, will go to polls on March 27.
“I have information that the BJP is spending money and pushing in criminals from other States …” Mamata told two rallies in Jangalmahal.