Lok Sabha elections: With one eye on Delhi, Mamata fights in Bengal

The BJP is gaining ground in West Bengal, its vote share having increased from 6 per cent in 2009 to 17 per cent in the 2014 elections

The petite frame of Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee belies the warrior within as she paces up and down the makeshift platform at campaign rallies likening her challenger Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler and labelling him a seasonal bird. 

Hours after the Prime Minister addressed an election meeting in Cooch Behar on Sunday, Banerjee referred to him as a “seasonal bird” for visiting North Bengal only ahead of elections at a rally in the same Lok Sabha constituency. 

“You had not come to Darjeeling during the days of unrest. Where were the BJP leaders when there were disturbances in the hills,”