Kolkata, Mar 8 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee will face a tough contest in the state assembly election against Suvendu Adhikari, her former top aide who defected to the BJP in December, in high-profile Nandigram seat of East Medinipur district.
Nandigram, the seat Ms Banerjee chose to fight on, was once the epicentre of a farmers' movement that propelled her and TMC to power in Bengal ten years ago. But Suvendu was the man who worked to build the party's base in Nandigram.