Hours later, Suvendu Adhikari, her close aide turned rival, declared he would defeat the CM by a margin of at least 50,000 votes or quit politics.

[23] BJP MP Subramanian Swamy had directly made a call to Mamata Banerjee's office and inquired about the health of the Chief Minister.

[24] A day after being injured, Mamata released a video message urging people and party workers to be calm and exercise restraint.

"[28] Medinipur DIG Kunal Agarwal, District Magistrate Bivu Goel and Superintendent of Police Praveen Prakash went to Birulia Bazar in Nandigram on Thursday morning to collect statements of eyewitnesses before sending their report to the Election Commission.

On 13 March Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) addressed a mahapanchayat at Nandigram and appealed to the local public not to vote for the BJP.

[30][31] On 15 March Adhikari sought removal of Banerjee's electoral roll from Nandigram alleging that the Bengal CM withheld information about six criminal cases against her while filing her nomination affidavit.

[45][46][47][48] The next day, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar told ABP Ananda that BJP goons are terrorising the people of Khodambari and Haridevpur (probably mistaken for Haripur) in Nandigram.

On the same day, Derek O’Brien and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar complained to EC that Suvendu was gathering miscreants in some constituencies to create unrest.

[53] On the eve of polling in Nandigram, Election Commission ordered the transfer of the sub-divisional police officer of Haldia and the circle inspector of Mahishadal in Purba Medinipur district to non-election assignments[54] and imposed Section 144 in that constituency.

[57] On the day of second phase polling i.e. 1 April, tensions erupted over allegations of bombings in some places and obstruction of voting in booths.

Talking about his experience in Bengal, Kishor alleged that the campaigning was made difficult due to Election Commission's bias and the TMC went through "hell" to fight the propaganda built by the BJP to showcase that it was winning.

All it matters that we gained landslide victory and BJP has lost the election.”[80][81] A delegation of TMC leaders Derek O’Brien, Kalyan Banerjee, Firhad Hakim and Atin Ghosh went to the office of Election Commission in demand of recounting in Nandigram and submitted a letter to the Commission alleging fraud in the Nandigram count.

They complained that Mamata Banerjee's demand for a recount was refused by the Returning Officer 'for reasons unknown', which is not good at all in the eyes of the law.

"[88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95] The Election Commission wrote a fresh letter to the West Bengal chief secretary directing to take all appropriate measures to keep a strict watch and monitor on a regular basis the security provided to the returning officer of Nandigram.

The area was heated up as soon as the BJP candidate reached the counting centre in Haldia from Kolaghat Guest House to pick up his certificate on Sunday evening.

[83][101] From the night of 2 May TMC workers and supporters started dharna in front of SDO Office at Manjushree crossing in Haldia demanding recount in Nandigram.

"[102][103][104] On 5 May, TMC held an all-day long dharna in Bagmari at the junction of Beleghata and Maniktala constituencies demanding recount in Nandigram.

Trinamool leaders blocked the road at the Manjushree crossing for an hour on next day morning, accusing the central forces of attacking them.

Sheikh Azgar Ali, vice-president of the District Trinamool Youth Congress, said "The box contained EVMs of 10 booths in Gokulnagar Gram Panchayat area.

[107][108][109][110][111][112] On 17 June the news came that Advocate Sanjay Basu had filed an election petition before the Calcutta High Court on behalf of Mamata Banerjee challenging the verdict of Nandigram.

Chanda directed the Calcutta High Court administration to look into whether the case was properly filed under the Representation of the People Act.

[115] Lawyers for the latter, Lalit Mahato and Sujoy Mandal, said the court was satisfied that the case had been filed properly under the Representation of the People Act, not the constitution or civil law.

Therefore, on this day, the judge directed to preserve all the documents and equipment related to the voting at Balarampur polling station until the decision of the case is taken.

[116][117] (BJP candidate Kalyan Chaubey filed a case in Calcutta High Court challenging the verdict of Maniktala constituency on 4 July, although 45 days had already passed since declaration of results.

BJP's Jitendra Tiwari had also challenged the outcome of Pandabeswar constituency on 29 June[118][119][120] and the Calcutta High Court on 14 July admitted his election petition for hearing.

[128] On 27 June, the Bar Council of West Bengal wrote a letter to the CJI, seeking removal of the Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal of Calcutta High Court.

He imposed a penalty of ₹5 lakh on Mamata Banerjee for seeking his recusal from her election petition and directed to deliver that amount to the State Bar Council.

Mamata Banerjee mentioned, regarding the rigging process in Nandigram election, during a workers' convention at Bhabanipur that took place on 8 September.

During the hearing in the High Court, Advocate General Soumendranath Mukherjee, who was questioning on behalf of Mamata Banerjee, opposed Suvendu's petition.

[177][178] In the 2021 elections, Suvendu Adhikari of Bharatiya Janata Party defeated his nearest rival Mamata Banerjee of Trinamool Congress.