TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday filed her nomination for the September 30 Bhabanipur Assembly by-poll winning which is an absolute necessity for her to continue as the Chief Minister.

She will be pitted against Left Front’s Srijib Biswas. The Congress has decided not to field a candidate against her.

The votes for Bhabanipur as also Jangipur and Samserganj will be counted on October 3 and results declared the same day.

Banerjee was accompanied by the wife of State Cabinet Minister Firhad Hakim at Survey Building in Alipore where she filed her nomination papers.

She was later seen greeting people with folded hands before boarding her car.

“The people of Bhabanipur are eagerly waiting to rewrite history by ensuring Mamata Banerjee’s victory by a record margin. They are waiting to avenge the conspiracy that was hatched to defeat Mamata di at Nandigram,” Firhad Hakim said.

TMC supporters lustily cheered their leader with slogans like “Bhabanipur Nijer Ghorer Meyekei chai” (Bhabanipur wants her own daughter) and “Bhabanipur eh Khela Hobe” (Game will happen in Bhabanipur). “For us, the challenge is not victory as we are confident about it. The challenge is to ensure Didi’s win by a record margin,” another TMC worker said. Banerjee, a resident of Bhabanipur, had won the seat twice in 2011 and 2016 but shifted to Nandigram, where the anti-farmland acquisition movement against Left Front Government had transformed her into a major political force in the volatile state, to dare her former protege and now a BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on his home turf.