In West Bengal’s ‘Game of Thrones’, Nandigram — the rural hamlet about 130 km from Kolkata — is King’s Landing; whoever wrests it, will rule the state. Or, so it is widely believed.
The prestige fight between Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and her protégé-turned-bête noire Suvendu Adhikari ended on April 1 with a high voter turnout of 88.01 per cent. But Nandigram continued to dominate the political discourse even after, with both sides claiming victory.
At a rally in North Bengal, on Friday, Banerjee said she would win in Nandigram. In the same tenor, Union Home Minister Amit Shah