Mamata on project-launching spree

KOLKATA - With the West Bengal assembly polls around six months away, Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee is on a project-launching spree.

Banerjee will visit Burdwan, Purulia and Bankura Saturday and Sunday and hold public rallies and announce new projects, said party sources.

Druing her trip, she will inaugurate a railway wagon factory at Andal in Burdwan, said a Trinamool Congress leader who did not want to be named. He said Banerjee will also sign an MoU with the National Thermal Power Corp for a power plant at Adra in Purulia as well.