Modi, Mamata launch election campaign on same day for battle of Bengal

"The kind of developmental work I have done for this country, I wasn't able to do it in Bengal," Modi said

Prime minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee launched the election campaign for their respective parties – the BJP and the TMC - in the state on the same day for control over the 42 seats in the Lok Sabha.

While Modi chose to launch the campaign from Siliguri, which falls under the Darjeeling constituency in north Bengal – a BJP turf, Mamata chose the adjoining Cooch Behar – a constituency where 59.03 per cent of the people voted in favour of TMC in the last Lok Sabha elections. Modi followed up his rally with Kolkata at