Hummingbird News Desk
KOLKATA, 21 JULY: Eyeing 2024 Lok Sabha poll, Trinamul Congress this time celebrated the Martyrs’ Day with gusto in almost all Assembly segments today.
They set up stage, put on giant screens so that Trinamul workers and supporters could also listen to their party supremo’s speech. The MLAs were also present at their respective constituencies.
Trinamul had also set up a relatively small stage at the usual venue at the crossing of CR Avenue and Bentinck Street and party’s state president Subrata Bakshi, secretary general Partha Chatterjee, all India general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and ministers Firad Hakim and Aroop Biswas were present.
It is learnt that Trinamul’s cycle rally at Agartala, Tripura were stopped by the Tripura state government.
Mr Banerjee said, “We will not be cowed down by the authoriterian forces, we will fight with the last drop of blood to remove the duo from Delhi.”
It is learnt that the party is trying to outreach to masses outside West Bengal and is trying to strengthen the party’s bases in different states.
After Abhishek Banerjee became Trinamul’s all India general secretary, he made it clear, “This time we will not only contest in other states for winning one or two Assembly seats but to strengthen our party in that very state or win the state as a whole.”
So Trinamul Congress Gujarat wing is going to observe Martyrs’ Day at 36 different points across the state.
Party sources reveal that giant screens had been put up at Lucknow, Varanasi, Azimgarh, Barreli and Trinamul Rajya Sabha member party’s chief whip in Rajya Sabha went to Lucknow to attend the programme.
During her Assembly poll campaign, she not only cautioned the people of Bengal against the possibility of BJP coming to power in the state but also against the BJP at the Centre and spoke about changing the government at the Centre.
In1993, 13 Youth Congress activists led by Mamata Banerjee killed in police firing when they were marching towards Writer’s Buildings demanding no identity proof no vote.
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