<p>TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee Friday filed her nomination for the September 30 Bhabanipur assembly by-poll winning which is an absolute necessity for her to continue as the chief minister.</p>.<p>She will be pitted against BJP's Priyanka Tibrewal and Left Front's Srijib Biswas. The Congress has decided not to field a candidate against her.</p>.<p>The votes for Bhabanipur as also Jangipur and Samserganj will be counted on October 3 and results declared the same day.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read — <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/west-bengal-bypoll-bjp-fields-priyanka-tibrewal-to-take-on-mamata-banerjee-in-bhabanipur-1028963.html">WB bypoll: BJP's Priyanka Tibrewal to take on Mamata</a></strong></p>.<p>Banerjee was accompanied by the wife of state cabinet minister Firhad Hakim at Survey Building in Alipore where she filed her nomination papers.</p>.<p>She was later seen greeting people with folded hands before boarding her car.</p>.<p>“The people of Bhabanipur are eagerly waiting to rewrite history by ensuring Mamata Banerjee’s victory by a record margin. They are waiting to avenge the conspiracy that was hatched to defeat Mamata di at Nandigram,” Firhad Hakim told reporters.</p>.<p>TMC supporters lustily cheered their leader with slogans like “Bhabanipur Nijer Ghorer Meyekei chai” (Bhabanipur wants her own daughter) and “Bhabanipur eh Khela Hobe” (Game will happen in Bhabanipur).</p>.<p>“For us, the challenge is not victory as we are confident about it. The challenge is to ensure Didi’s win by a record margin,” another TMC worker said.</p>.<p>Banerjee, a resident of Bhabanipur, had won the seat twice in 2011 and 2016 but shifted to Nandigram, where the anti-farmland acquisition movement against the Left Front government had transformed her into a major political force in the volatile state, to dare her former protege and now a BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on his home turf. Though Banerjee powered the TMC to a resounding win for a third straight term in office, she lost in Nandigram.</p>.<p>She now must win Bhabanipur to ensure an unbroken stint as the chief minister.</p>.<p>Banerjee is required to win a seat in the state assembly by November 5 in conformity with the constitutional provisions in order to continue as chief minister. The Constitution allows a non-member of a state legislature or Parliament to continue in a ministerial position without getting elected only for six months.</p>.<p>After her defeat in Nandigram, Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, state cabinet minister and TMC MLA from Bhabanipur, vacated the seat to facilitate her return to the assembly from there.</p>.<p>Reacting to her nomination, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh said she will face the same fate as in Nandigram.</p>.<p>“The BJP had defeated her in Nandigram. She will be defeated again in Bhabanipur. The people of the constituency will give her a befitting reply for the torture and violence her party unleashed after the assembly polls,” he said.</p>.<p>Banerjee was first elected to the Assembly in a by-poll from Bhabanipur months after the TMC stormed to power ousting the 34-year-old Left Front dispensation in 2011.</p>.<p>She represented South Kolkata Lok Sabha seat, of which Bhabanipur is a segment, six times.</p>.<p><strong>Check out the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>
<p>TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee Friday filed her nomination for the September 30 Bhabanipur assembly by-poll winning which is an absolute necessity for her to continue as the chief minister.</p>.<p>She will be pitted against BJP's Priyanka Tibrewal and Left Front's Srijib Biswas. The Congress has decided not to field a candidate against her.</p>.<p>The votes for Bhabanipur as also Jangipur and Samserganj will be counted on October 3 and results declared the same day.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read — <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/west-bengal-bypoll-bjp-fields-priyanka-tibrewal-to-take-on-mamata-banerjee-in-bhabanipur-1028963.html">WB bypoll: BJP's Priyanka Tibrewal to take on Mamata</a></strong></p>.<p>Banerjee was accompanied by the wife of state cabinet minister Firhad Hakim at Survey Building in Alipore where she filed her nomination papers.</p>.<p>She was later seen greeting people with folded hands before boarding her car.</p>.<p>“The people of Bhabanipur are eagerly waiting to rewrite history by ensuring Mamata Banerjee’s victory by a record margin. They are waiting to avenge the conspiracy that was hatched to defeat Mamata di at Nandigram,” Firhad Hakim told reporters.</p>.<p>TMC supporters lustily cheered their leader with slogans like “Bhabanipur Nijer Ghorer Meyekei chai” (Bhabanipur wants her own daughter) and “Bhabanipur eh Khela Hobe” (Game will happen in Bhabanipur).</p>.<p>“For us, the challenge is not victory as we are confident about it. The challenge is to ensure Didi’s win by a record margin,” another TMC worker said.</p>.<p>Banerjee, a resident of Bhabanipur, had won the seat twice in 2011 and 2016 but shifted to Nandigram, where the anti-farmland acquisition movement against the Left Front government had transformed her into a major political force in the volatile state, to dare her former protege and now a BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on his home turf. Though Banerjee powered the TMC to a resounding win for a third straight term in office, she lost in Nandigram.</p>.<p>She now must win Bhabanipur to ensure an unbroken stint as the chief minister.</p>.<p>Banerjee is required to win a seat in the state assembly by November 5 in conformity with the constitutional provisions in order to continue as chief minister. The Constitution allows a non-member of a state legislature or Parliament to continue in a ministerial position without getting elected only for six months.</p>.<p>After her defeat in Nandigram, Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, state cabinet minister and TMC MLA from Bhabanipur, vacated the seat to facilitate her return to the assembly from there.</p>.<p>Reacting to her nomination, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh said she will face the same fate as in Nandigram.</p>.<p>“The BJP had defeated her in Nandigram. She will be defeated again in Bhabanipur. The people of the constituency will give her a befitting reply for the torture and violence her party unleashed after the assembly polls,” he said.</p>.<p>Banerjee was first elected to the Assembly in a by-poll from Bhabanipur months after the TMC stormed to power ousting the 34-year-old Left Front dispensation in 2011.</p>.<p>She represented South Kolkata Lok Sabha seat, of which Bhabanipur is a segment, six times.</p>.<p><strong>Check out the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>