Who is Suvendu Adhikari and why are the parties wooing him?

Suvendu, a grassroots charismatic leader with a huge sway in the rural belts, is a member of the powerful Adhikari family of East Midnapore district. His father Sisir Adhikari and younger brother Dibyendu Adhikari are TMC MPs from Tamluk and Kanthi Lok Sabha constituencies respectively. Sisir was a minister in the UPA-1 government. Adhikari had played a vital role in TMC's Nandigram anti-land eviction movement in 2007, which had helped the party snatch power from the left front. The land acquisition movements in Nandigram in East Midnapore district and Singur in Hooghly are considered to be two pillars which laid the foundation of the TMC government led by Banerjee in 2011.