Initially dubbed as a Trinamool Congress versus Trinamool Congress contest, the BJP gained ground after Prime Minister Narendra Modi organised a road show on May 28.
The next day Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took out a padyatra from Shyambazar to Vivekananda road, the same route as that of Modi.
Sources in the TMC said that after the footmarch, Banerjee met Bandyopadhyay and Kunal Ghosh separately at their residences. Bandyopadhyay, a fiveterm MP and the AITC's leader in the Lok Sabha, is set to increase his victory margin this time. He said there is no need to clarify his position in his locality as people see him round the year. "I don't work before polls.
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