You cannot suggest me, I don't belong to your party: Mamata hits back at Modi's Nandigram taunt

At a rally in Uluberia on a day Nandigram went to polls, Modi, who was campaigning for his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said, "The Nandigram incident shows Didi is losing in Nandigram. We are hearing that she might fight from another seat."

"Didi, are you going to file your nomination from another seat?" the BJP stalwart added.

Hitting back at the Prime Minister, Mamata at a rally in Cooch Behar said, "The Home Minister is not running the country but only doing goondaism and rioting to kill people. I would ask the Prime Minister to control his Home Minister first and then control us."

"You cannot control me because I do not belong to your party. You cannot suggest to me where I should fight elections from. I contested from Nandigram and I am going to win there. I work as per the intelligence of people," the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo added.

After her trusted soldier Suvendu Adhikari quit the TMC and joined the BJP, Mamata took the reigns of her party in Nandigram by announcing her candidature from the seat, leaving her traditional Bhabanipore constituency.

Interestingly, Mamata while announcing the TMC's candidate list had said she might fight from Tollygunge seat in Kolkata, triggering speculations over her political move.

Immediately after the PM's remark, top sources of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) have confirmed the question of Mamata Banerjee fighting from any other seat doesn’t arise. The party has claimed she is winning in Nandigram 'comfortably'.

A standoff between the TMC and BJP workers in Nandigram's Boyal occurred after Mamata reached one polling station in the area at around 1:40 pm. after it was reported that a TMC polling agent was denied an entry into a booth.

Mamata was held inside the polling booth for nearly two hours until she was rescued by CRPF and police personnel.