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  "id": 8235797,
  "title": "Nandigram Bypoll: Mamata Backs Congress Candidate After Faction’s Pick Withdraws Following Meeting With CM Adhikari",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/nandigram-bypoll-mamata-backs-congress-candidate-after-factions-pick",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-18T11:11:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/nandigram-bypoll-mamata-backs-congress-candidate-after-factions-pick-withdraws-following-meeting-with-cm-adhikari"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Former West Bengal Chief Minister and All India Mamata Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced that her faction would support the Congress in Nandigram and Assam, saying the decision was taken in the “greater interest of the nation”. The announcement came shortly after her faction’s candidate for the Nandigram Assembly bypoll, Sanchita Pradhan Dey, withdrew her nomination…",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 5,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Hindustan Times",
        "title": "Nandigram bypoll: TMC’s Mamata camp candidate withdraws nomination day before deadline",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/nandigram-bypoll-tmcs-mamata-camp-candidate-withdraws-nomination-day",
        "published": "2026-09-18T10:44:57.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "Mamata camp backs Congress in Nandigram bypoll after candidate withdraws nomination",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/mamata-camp-backs-congress-in-nandigram-bypoll-after-candidate",
        "published": "2026-09-18T10:53:59.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "NDTV",
        "title": "Nandigram Candidate Abandons Her, Mamata Banerjee Pulls A Congress Surprise",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/nandigram-candidate-abandons-her-mamata-banerjee-pulls-a-congress",
        "published": "2026-09-18T11:31:41.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Hindu",
        "title": "Mamata to support Congress in Nandigram bypoll after Mamata AITC candidate withdraws nomination",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/mamata-to-support-congress-in-nandigram-bypoll-after-mamata-aitc",
        "published": "2026-09-18T11:36:24.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}