Key Points
The two leaders addressed rallies in north Bengal on the same day, within minutes of each other and barely 25 kilometres apart..
Even in the 34-year Communist reign in West Bengal, these eight seats one each in Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, North and South Dinajpur and two in Maldah swung between the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), the Forward Bloc, the BJP and the Congress..
Hours after kicking off her election campaign at Mahua Moitras Krishnanagar seat that day, the West Bengal chief minister rushed upstate to handle the fallout of the mini tornado in Jalpaiguridistrict that left five people dead..
The speech writers did make one major correction,though.They dropped a promise that Modi was making in recent addresses to party workers in Bengal: the promise to return to the peoplethe money the ED had seized in corruption cases it is probing in the state...
Adding insult to injury,he toldAmrita Ray, the BJP candidate from Krishnanagar, overthephone:You please tell the public that you have spoken to Modiji and he has said that the people of Bengal should believe that the Rs 3,000 crore attached by the ED will be returned to them...
