from Burdwan, I saw the greenery all around." He referred this to the success in the agricultural field of the leftists in the last 27 years. He also thanked the voters of the area for being the main pillars of this strong hold of CPI(M). The minister recollected his memories of the student days when he stepped into the student politics at the MAMC, Durgapur. He said inspite of NDA's `evil motif' of either selling or closing all nationalised industries, the state government is working hard in the alternative measure of the economic reforms. He claimed the state has attracted huge fresh investments in both conventional & information technology industries. He also added, "Almost 700 plastic industries have been setup in a short span. This denotes that inspite of all rumors, the state is attracting investors at a large." 

The CPI(M) candidate Meheboob Jahidi said, "The TMC-BJP will fly away in the anti-NDA storm in Katwa." He also have attacked the BJP led NDA government for their `anti common people policies'. He said, "people of West Bengal have never supported such parties & will also throw them this time."

Among the other speakers, Arun Ganguly of CPI, Promothesh Mukherjee, the RSP candidate at Baharampur, Amal Halder, the CPI(M) district secretary & Nikhilananda Sar, the CPI(M) candidate at Burdwan were present. The Chief minister proceeded to Kalna to address a rally in support of the leftist candidate.

Although Katwa believed to be a strong hold of the CPI(M) led left-front, this time the TMC-BJP candidate Sultan Ahmed & the ex-CPI(M) member of parliament & current candidate of PDS, Saifuddin Choudhury is hopeful to put up a strong fight against CPI(M). A TMC leader said, "it is now established that the CPI(M) led left front is worrying about this constituency. That why they got the chief minister to address two rallies (Katwa & Kalna) in this constituency."