After a prolonged neck-and-neck fight throughout the result day, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee has finally won from the coveted Nandigram assembly constituency. She has defeated BJP's Suvendu Adhikari by 1,200 votes.
For a considerable time, Suvendu Adhikari was leading against Mamata Banerjee, and at one time the difference was nearly 10,000 votes.
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The electoral battle in Nandigram was arguably the most coveted of all electoral battles in West Bengal this time. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee moved from her traditional Bhabanipur seat to Nandigram, where she was challenged by her former close aide Suvendu Adhikari, who is a local and BJP candidate from the seat.
It was from Nandigram that Suvendu Adhikari had teamed up with Mamata Banerjee in 2007 giving birth to what became the Nandigram movement. In four years, Mamata Banerjee became a formidable force and routed the 34-year-rule of the Left Front in Bengal.
Mamata Banerjee risked her political future by taking on the Adhikaris in Nandigram. The speculation that the family could be divided over loyalty to Mamata Banerjee was put to rest when Suvendu Adhikari's father and family's patriarch Sisir Adhikari joined the BJP.