Mamata Banerjee PM Modi's rallies at Cooch Behar, north Bengal seat today

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has gained the most ground in north Bengal's Cooch Behar district since the 2019 elections. On Thursday, at the same time, the chief ministers of West Bengal and India, Narendra Modi and Mamata Banerjee, will be holding LokSabha campaign rallies. The locations of the two rallies are the same.

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This election season, it is the first time that the head of the Trinamool Congress and Prime Minister Modi would address the same constituency on the same day.

On April 19, the first of seven stages of elections for the North Bengali seats of Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, and Jalpaiguri is set. One of the three districts that each of these seats represents is represented by its name.

The BJP defeated the reigning TMC party in all three seats in 2019. Nisith Pramanik, a native of Cooch Behar, and John Barla, a resident of Alipurduar, are currently ministers of state for their respective home states.

Banerjee is set to speak at two rallies, while Modi is expected to attend one event in Cooch Behar on Thursday, according to announcements made by his party on Wednesday night.

With the acquisition of 18 out of the 42 LokSaha seats in the state in 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) broke previous records. It took seven out of the eight seats in the North Bengal legislature. The principal opposition group in the eastern state is expected to win at least 25 seats this election cycle.

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In the 2021 elections, the TMC secured 213 of Bengal's 294 assembly seats; however, the BJP secured 30 of the 54 seats in the eight north Bengali districts, despite the BJP's overall 77 seat total. The TMC was able to win two of these seats in the by polls held in the north Bengal region.

After boarding a chartered plane shortly after the nor esters descended on the region on Sunday, Banerjee has been touring the north Bengal regions and conversing with individual voters. Two community blocks in the Jalpaiguri district took the brunt of the damage, resulting in the terrible deaths of five persons.

Abhishek Banerjee, the nephew of the chief minister and national general secretary of the Trinamool Congress, launched an attack on the prime minister on Wednesday while he was preparing for a political showdown. He claimed that the PMAY program had been implemented irregularly and that the central government had decided to stop funding housing projects for the poor.