'Injured tigress' vs 'lightweight': Bhabanipur set for unequal battle between Mamata Banerjee and Priyanka Tibrewal

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who described herself as an "injured tigress" after an incident on the campaign trail in Nandigram which left her with a plastered foot, is likely to roar back to victory, those watching the electoral battle unfold in the constituency feel.

Kolkata: Having emerged as the face of opposition resistance to the Narendra Modi juggernaut after the TMC's triumph in the assembly elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is locked in an unequal battle as she squares off with "lightweight" rivals in her own lair--Bhabanipur. Banerjee, who described herself as an "injured tigress" after an incident on the campaign trail in Nandigram which left her with a plastered foot, and was licking her wounds following her defeat at the hands of one-time protege Suvendu Adhikari, will likely roar back to victory, those watching the electoral battle unfold in the constituency feel. She is pitted in the by-poll against Priyanka Tibrewal of the BJP and CPI-M's Srijib Biswas. Tibrewal, whom the state BJP president Dilip Ghosh called a "fearless soul", is a lawyer and one of the petitioners in a string of PILs filed against the TMC government over incidents of violence that rocked West Bengal after the assembly elections in March-April this year but has nothing to show by way of political accomplishments. She had contested the assembly election from Entally and lost. Biswas is a political greenhorn.