West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee stated on Tuesday that the demography of Bhowanipore assembly constituency in south Kolkata was being intentionally altered by generating outsiders. Banerjee is most likely to object to from Bhowanipore in the 2026 assembly elections.
< source media ="(max-width:767px)" alt ="Banerjee was addressing a public gathering in Bhowanipore. (ANI photo)" > < img src ="https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2025/10/15/550x309/Banerjee-was-addressing-a-public-gathering-in-Bhow_1760512138418.jpg"alt ="Banerjee was addressing a public gathering in Bhowanipore. (ANI photo)"title ="Banerjee was addressing a public gathering in Bhowanipore. (ANI photo)"width ="360"height ="202">“Bhowanipore is being slowly filled by generating outsiders and this is being carried out in a well-planned way. By pointing out outsiders, I am not describing those who are citizens of West Bengal. Individuals( from outdoors )are coming here and acquiring land and building homes. They are offering cash to residents and after that leaving,” she stated without calling anybody.
The Bhowanipore assembly constituency is a fortress of the ruling-Trinamool Congress (TMC) from where celebration convenor Banerjee has actually been winning because 2011. Her house in Kalighat is likewise within the Bhowanipore constituency.
“In numerous locations, the run-down neighborhoods of the bad are being destroyed to pave the way to high-rises. I do not support this. As an outcome, our citizens are being repelled. We can construct homes for them (shanty town occupants) under the state-funding real estate plan,” she included.
Banerjee was attending to a public event by means of phone in Bhowanipore. The primary minister is currently in north Bengal to analyze the flood scenario.
“Why can’t we comprehend that the celebration and the bad individuals are our primary top priorities. The people are our treasure,” she included.
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In 2021, Banerjee swept the Bhowanipore by-election beating Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Priyanka Tibrewal by a margin of 58,835 votes. In 2021, she lost the Nandigram seat in the assembly election.
In 2011, when Banerjee led the TMC to end the Left Front’s 34-year-long routine, she won the Bhawanipore bypoll with 54,213 votes. A citizen turnout of less than 45% was tape-recorded because election.
In 2016, when the citizen turnout was 66.83%, Banerjee beat Congress prospect Deepa Dasmunsi by 25,301 votes.
“We would make sure that she wins by a margin of one lakh votes from Bhowanipore (in the 2026 assembly surveys),” Firhad Hakim, state minister and mayor of Kolkata stated while resolving the event.
The BJP, nevertheless, stated that Banerjee has doubts whether she can win from Bhowanipore in the 2026 assembly.
“She hesitates. She has doubts that she might lose from Bhowanipore. That’s why she is stating all these. High-rises are turning up all over the city and in other cities too. We have not become aware of any grievances being lodged versus strong expulsion in her constituency up until now. Why is she making such remarks? Since she understands effectively that individuals who are settling there are not scared of TMC hooligans,” stated BJP leader Rahul Sinha.