Bengal secure, Mamata eyes poll pie share in other states

“She has to address at least eight rallies here next month. We will try and organise two rallies in a day. We have to propose the dates of her rally,” Sharma said.

Apart from UP, Mamata had announced to field candidates in Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur, Tripura and Orissa.
Sources in the party said, Mamata will address rallies in Agartala (in Tripura) on March 25, Guwahati (in Assam) on March 26 followed by one in Imphal (in Manipur) in March.

In Manipur, TMC is the main opposition. In the 2012 Assembly elections in that state, the TMC had won 7 seats in the 60-member Assembly. In Tripura the party is rapidly gaining ground. In September last year, 500 Congress supporters, including three former ministers, joined the party.

Leaders from various states have already requested Mamata for campaigning. “We want Didi as prime minister of the country as we do not see any other politician as honest as her. We have told party general secretary Mukul Roy that Didi has to come to our state to address a couple of rallies. He will take it up with her,” K Jainuddin, general secretary of Kerala TMC, told The Indian Express.

K T Paul, who came with the Kerala delegation to Kolkata to attend Mamata’s Brigade rally said, “Didi is very popular there.”

Incidentally, Mukul Roy had addressed a party convention at Kozhikode in December last year. He had also addressed conventions in UP and Tamil Nadu.

“We have great prospects in states like UP and I am sure if Didi goes there for campaigning our party will do well,” Kalyan Banerjee, party MP, said.