West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021: Sharad Pawar to Campaign For Trinamool Congress, Will Address Public Meeting
Despite being part of the Congress-Sena-NCP alliance in the Maharashtra government, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, who was named star campaigner in West Bengal from the MVA, Pawar will be campaigning for Trinamool Congress next week after Holi.
New Delhi, March 25: Despite being part of the Congress-Sena-NCP alliance in the Maharashtra government, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, who was named star campaigner in West Bengal from the MVA, Pawar will be campaigning for Trinamool Congress next week after Holi.
NCP sources said that Pawar will address public meeting and also meet Trinamool supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The first phase of Pawar's campaigning will be for three days. BJP List of Candidates For West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021: Check 57 Names Announced by Bharatiya Janta Party For Vidhan Sabha Polls.
Congress leader Pradeep Bhattacharya has written a letter to the NCP leader not to campaign for Trinamool which may send wrong signals to the voters as Congress is contesting elections in the state in alliance with Left.
Most of the UPA constituents are supporting Trinamool in place of Congress which is heading the UPA alliance in the country.
Apart from NCP, Shiv Sena, JMM and RJD have extended its support to the Trinamool in West Bengal elections.
The state is witnessing fierce political battle between Trinamool and BJP.
The BJP manifesto is focussing on the "Sonar Bangla model", JMM leader Hemant Soren will be pitched for tribal votes in the state.
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