Kolkata, March 21 -- The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal will launch a two-pronged campaign from Tuesday, with party supremo Mamata Banerjee and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee leading parallel outreach drives ahead of the crucial Assembly polls, even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gears up for an aggressive push with at least a dozen rallies and roadshows by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah.

Chief minister Banerjee is scheduled to launch her campaign from Alipurduar in north Bengal, a bastion of the BJP, while her nephew and the party's national general secretary, Abhishek Banerjee, will kick-start his campaign from Patharpratima in South 24 Parganas, a TMC stronghold.

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