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Bengal polls: TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee to start election campaign from Mar 9

| | Mar 06, 2016, at 09:00 pm
Kolkata, Mar 6 (IBNS): West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to commence her election campaigning from Wednesday (Mar 9) for upcoming assembly polls in the state, party sources said.

According to Trinamool Congress sources, Banerjee will address nearly 150 mass meetings in the entire state and her first public meeting will be held in Malda district.

Thereafter she has plans to hold election campaigns in the Jangalmahal part of the state.

Mamata Banerjee will walk in a rally, organized by TMC's women wing, as well on Tuesday (Mar 8) from Shyambazar to Esplanade area in Kolkata, the source further said.

However, assembly polls in the state will be commencing from April 4.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

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