Kolkata: Addressing a poll rally on Tuesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she chose to contest from Nandigram over Singur and if she has entered the constituency once, she will stay there. “I could have contested from any other constituency but I have chosen Nandigram to pay my respect to the mothers and sisters of this place. To salute the Nandigram movement, I chose Nandigram over Singur,” the TMC chief said while addressing a public rally in Nandigram’s Sona Chura.

“Remember, if I have entered Nandigram once, I will not leave. Nandigram is my place, I will stay here,” Mamata Banerjee said.

She told the people of Nandigram to bury the BJP politically and bowl the party out of the constituency and the whole state.

“Bury Bharatiya Janata Party politically and bowl them out from Nandigram and West Bengal,” Mamata Banerjee said.

Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee hit back at Union home minister Amit Shah who condoled the death of Shova Majumdar, the 82-year- old mother of a party worker who was allegedly attacked by TMC supporters, asking why was the home minister silent during the Hathras rape case in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh.

Asserting that she does not support violence against women, Banerjee said, she is not aware of the actual reason behind Majumdar’s death.

The saffron party claimed that the elderly woman who was allegedly beaten, at Nimta in North 24 Paraganas district in February, succumbed to her injuries sustained during the attack by TMC supporters.

His son was also beaten up on that day, the BJP said.

“I don’t know how the sister has died. We don’t support violence against women. We have never supported violence against my sisters and mothers. But the BJP is now politicising the issue.

“Amit Shah is tweeting and saying, ‘Bengal Ka Kya Haal hain’. Why does was he mum when women were attacked and brutalised at Hathras in Uttar Pradesh?” Banerjee said while addressing a rally in Nandigram.

Highlighting that law and order is now under ECI’s jurisdiction with the Model Code of Conduct in place, Banerjee said, “three TMC workers have been killed in the last few days”.

Condoling the woman’s death, the home minister said earlier in the day, the pain and anguish of Majumdar’s family will haunt TMC chief Mamata Banerjee for long.

“Anguished over the demise of Bengal’s daughter Shova Majumdar Ji, who was brutally beaten by TMC goons. The pain & wounds of her family will haunt Mamata didi for a long. Bengal will fight for a violence-free tomorrow, Bengal will fight for a safer state for our sisters & mothers,” Shah said in a tweet.