The Trinamool Congress may have fielded actor-politician Saayoni Ghosh from the Jadavpur Lok Sabha segment, a party stronghold on the southern fringes of Kolkata, but that hasn’t granted her immunity to battling voters’ perceptions on one of West Bengal’s most pressing issues in the parliamentary polls — Sandeshkhali.
Even as the 31-year-old youth leader made no attempts to hide her initial euphoria over her party’s call to award her a ticket from the prestigious seat, she maintained that it “felt like a homecoming”. Ms. Ghosh also asserted that the Sandeshkhali damage was “well controlled”.
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