As TMC pulls off landside win in KMC polls, Mamata visits Kamakhya temple

As Trinamool Congress registered a landslide victory in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati on Tuesday (Photo credit: CMO)

Mamata Banerjee arrived in Guwahati in the afternoon, and drove straight to the temple atop the Nilachal Hills where she was received by the temple's 'dolois' or priests. (Photo credit: CMO)

She offered prayers inside the sanctum sanctorum of the temple, where the stone symbolising Kamakhya Devi is placed and later also prayed at the Bagalamukhi temple, further up the hills, a party member said. (Photo credit: CMO)

Mamata Banerjee was received at the airport by TMC's Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev. The firebrand leader did not talk to the press waiting outside the temple and the airport, but waved at them. (Photo credit: CMO)

A senior TMC leader told news agency PTI that Banerjee had asked them to explain to the press that she was on a private visit as she wanted to pay her obeisance to 'Ma Kamakhya'. (Photo credit: CMO)

Mamata Banerjee had also visited the temple in August 2013. (Photo credit: CMO)