Bengal polls second phase: Mamata vs Suvendu in Nandigram and other key contests on April 1
India TV NewsBengal polls second phase will be held on Thursday that will witness the most awaited contest in the 8-phased assembly election. Out of 30 constituencies where polling is scheduled, Nandigram is going to be the prime focus as incumbent chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her former close aide Suvendu Adhikari now with the BJP are in the fray. Key candidates in Bengal elections second phase Mamata Banerjee vs Suvendu Adhikari Firoza Bibi vs Shintu Senapati vs Chittaranjan Das Thakur in Panskura Paschim Sangram Kumar Dolui vs Ashoke Dinda vs Manik Bhownik in Moyana Prestige battle in Nandigram The high-profile Nandigram constituency, where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is pitted against her one-time loyalist-turned-rival Suvendu Adhikari of BJP, will vote in the second phase. For her, and the BJP, the battle for Nandigram is a prestige fight because it was the 2007 agitation against land acquisition in the region which catapulted the West Bengal Chief Minister to the centre stage of politics in the state, paving the way for the Trinamool's victory in the 2011 Assembly polls that ended 34 years of Left Front rule.