Kolkata, March 22 -- Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday directed Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers in her Assembly constituency, south Kolkata's Bhowanipore, to keep a close watch on the strong rooms where electronic voting machines (EVMs) are kept after polling, party leaders present at the closed-door meeting said.

Seeking re-election for a fourth term, Banerjee reportedly cautioned the TMC workers by citing her defeat in the 2021 assembly polls in East Midnapore district's Nandigram against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA and her former cabinet colleague Suvendu Adhikari.

After the debacle-which forced her to continue in office by winning a by-election in Bhowanipore-Banerjee challenged the Nandigram verdict, alleging that the ...