Battleground Bhabanipur: Mamata slams ‘jumla party’, BJP hits back at ‘non-MLA CM’

With days to go for the Bhabanipur bypoll, head honchos of the BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress descended on the small town on Sunday and launched a blistering war of words.

With days to go for the Bhabanipur bypoll, head honchos of the BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) descended on the small town on Sunday to campaign and shore up support.

TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, who is running from the Bhabanipur assembly seat, lambasted rival BJP as a “jumla (rhetoric) party” and declared that she would defeat it across the country in the near future.