‘Mamata taking credit for UPA schemes: CPM’s Amiya Patra

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A university in Bankura may have come up but it remains non-functional as do the four super specialty hospitals, the leader pointed out. “The buildings, painted blue and white, are ready but the university doesn’t have a faculty and the hospitals don’t have doctors.”

About the Left Front’s alliance partner, Congress, Patra said the party enjoys “little presence” in Bankura. “Their vote share is only about two per cent here,” Patra said. He attributed the lack of his party’s presence in the campaign season to “TMC-sponsored terror”. “We could not do wall-writings as our workers were prevented from doing so but the people here have seen what we have done for them all these years and I am confident of winning once again,” he said, and claimed that Bankura may be largely water-starved, people in Taldangra at least have several tube wells that provides them with drinking water.

The constituency has drawn a lot of attention of the CM too who has campaigned for TMC candidate Samir Chakraborty, the husband of Bidhannagar Municipality chairperson Krishna Chakraborty. During her rally Wednesday, Mamata had blamed the Left Front’s “34-year rule” for the scarcity of drinking water in the district and claimed her government will ensure development in the area.

The TMC candidate, meanwhile, sought to refute allegations that he had to do anything with the attacks on workers of the opposition party.

“They have even gone to the Election Commission to complain that I had prevented their workers from campaigning. The fact is they don’t have anyone to campaign for them. I had offered to volunteer if they wanted me to,” he said.