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March 20: If Mamata Banerjee needed first-hand experience to gauge what the Congress must be feeling, her own supporters obliged her today at her doorstep. Trinamul Congress activists from three districts squatted or demonstrated in front of Mamata's Kalighat home to protest the choice of some party candidates announced by her on Friday. A common factor was that some of the protests were against "outsiders", including actor Chiranjeet. Mamata has fielded several apolitical persons from different walks of life against the political war horses of the Left. Also among the protesters were some from Tamluk, the gateway to Nandigram which changed Mamata's political fortunes. Party sources said Mamata could be forced to take a re-look at a few of the nominees because of the dissent that broke through the veneer today. The public show of discontent came on a day the Trinamul candidate from Entally, Tarak Banerjee, said he had "informed" his party that he "did not want to contest the seat". Party sources said Mamata was "angry" with Tarak for "breaking party discipline". Tarak, whose constituency Cossipore has ceased to exist because of delimitation, had wanted to contest from either Shampukur or Jorasanko, the sources said. Around 4pm, more than 100 Trinamul activists from East Midnapore's Tamluk gathered in front of Mamata's home and squatted for two hours. They were protesting the decision to field Somen Mahapatra from the seat. The Trinamul activists, apparently owing allegiance to Chittaranjan Maity, who had unsuccessfully contested the seat on the party's ticket in the 2006 Assembly polls, demanded that the "outsider" Mahapatra be replaced with "a son of the soil". Mahapatra is a resident of Panskura, 26km from Tamluk. The protesters also wanted Mamata to come out and meet them. When the Trinamul chief sent her additional secretary Ratan De to pacify them, the protesters turned more restive. "Didi had gone on a 26-day hunger strike in 2006 to protest the forcible land acquisition in Singur. We will organise a similar strike here for two days if she does not meet us," one of the protesters shouted. When De failed to assuage the activists, Mamata sent Trinamul state unit president Subrata Bakshi. Bakshi, who knew some in the crowd, called one of them, Ram Maity, aside and told him that Mamata would meet them only after they submitted their grievances in writing to her. "We have been associated with Trinamul since its formation in 1998. But the person who has been given the ticket from Tamluk is a non-entity in the area," Ram Maity was heard telling Bakshi. However, Bakshi finally prevailed on the protesters to leave. The tremors of the protest were felt in the district, too, with Trinamul activists protesting in front of Chittaranjan Maity's Tamluk home for "encouraging dissidents". In Patashpur, Trinamul supporters vandalised six party offices to protest the candidature of Jyotirmoy Kar from the seat. The protesters said Kar was an "outsider". Similar scenes of discontent played out in Panskura too. Party activists protested Omar Ali's nomination from Panskura, saying "he had done nothing" during his tenure as chairman of the local civic board. Immediately after the protesters from Tamluk left, Trinamul workers from Burdwan South arrived in front of Mamata's home and protested the nomination of Swarup Dutta. They said a "weak candidate" like Dutta should not have been pitted against the "formidable" Nirupam Sen of the CPM. Among the demonstrators were members of the Sain family. On March 17, 1970, three members of the family were killed allegedly by CPM activists for being Congress supporters. As the party workers from Burdwan were protesting, they were joined by a group of 20 Trinamul supporters from North 24-Parganas' Barasat. The protesters from Barasat said a "proper party functionary", and not actor Chiranjeet, should have been fielded from the seat. The agitators from the two districts dispersed after senior party leaders, including Bakshi, spoke to them. Some rebellious heads are rising in Jorasanko, too, Trinamul sources said. Several party workers and activists are resenting the denial of ticket to sitting MLA Dinesh Bajaj and the nomination of Santilal Jain from the seat. "Jain may not get the support of Muslims as he earlier belonged to the BJP," a Trinamul leader said. PROBLEM SEATS
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