21st July Martyr’s Day Rally holds a special place in our hearts. West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee said in a video message, we are dedicating this day to our martyrs and party workers. (Photo: PTI File)
The TMC, which is part of the newly formed non-BJP alliance Bharat, is likely to spell out at the rally its strategy to strengthen opposition unity and its design to counter the saffron party in the state.
Thousands of Trinamool Congress workers from villages and towns across the state are coming to Kolkata for the ruling party’s Martyrs’ Day rally on Friday. Buoyed by the recent victory in the rural elections, many enthusiastic party workers have already arrived and are living in camps at Salt Lake and elsewhere.
The TMC, which is part of the newly formed non-BJP alliance Bharat, is likely to spell out at the rally its strategy to strengthen opposition unity and its design to counter the saffron party in the state.
“The Martyr’s Day rally of 21st July holds a special place in our hearts. West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee said in a video message, we are dedicating this day to our martyrs and party workers.
The rally, which is supposed to be a show of TMC’s public support and strength, is being organized at a time when several party leaders are behind bars in corruption cases. The cases are being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Posters and banners bearing pictures of party supremo Mamata Banerjee and asking people to join the rally to be held at the Five-Point Esplanade crossing are spread across the streets, lanes and bylanes of the city.
Lakhs of people are expected to attend the rally, which the party has been organizing over the years in memory of the 13 Congress supporters who were killed in police firing in 1993 at the state secretariat – Writers’ Building – when the CPI(M)-led Left Front was in power.
Mamata Banerjee was the state Youth Congress chief at that time and even after the Trinamool Congress was formed on January 1, 1998, she continued to rally on this day every year.
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