NEW DELHI: TMC chief and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday led the party’s annual martyr’s day rally, held in Kolkata. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav also joined her along with other party leaders.
The martyr’s day rally is held in Kolkata’s Dharmatala area, and is believed to be the biggest political event in TMC’s annual calendar. Massive crowds, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, reached Kolkata from various parts of West Bengal to attend the rally.
Addressing the rally, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said, “Today is the day to remember the karyakartas (party workers)”.
Targeting the BJP-led NDA government at centre, SP chief said, “I said this earlier in Lok Sabha and I’m saying it again today that the (central) government is not going to survive. The government will fall, and we will see that days of happiness will come for us.” “…The people of Bengal have fought with the BJP and left them behind, the same happened in Uttar Pradesh…The people sitting in the government in Delhi are in power only for a few days. ‘Woh sarkaar chalne wali nahi hai, woh sarkaar girne wali hai’…,” he further said.
TMC supremo also addressed the rally, and said, “Trinamool Congress is the only party whose 38 per cent elected MPs are women. Before the elections, many claimed to provide 33 per cent reservation for women in politics but could not do it. We are the only party that ensured 38% women representation.”
Trinamool Congress observe its annual ‘Shahid Diwas’ in remembrance of 13 people shot dead in Kolkata in 1993 during a protest movement by the West Bengal Youth Congress.
Akhilesh Yadav reached Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata at 11.40 am, accompanied by his party colleague and former Rajya Sabha member Kiranmay Nanda and Trinamool Congress member in the Rajya Sabha and national spokesperson Derek O’Brien.
Before arriving at Kolkata’s Esplanade, Akhilesh Yadav met West Bengal chief minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee at her residence in Kalighat in the southern part of Kolkata.
TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, while talking to reporters on Saturday said that the event is not just a political gathering but a tribute to the ‘Maa-Mati-Manush’ (motherland, soil, and people) of Bengal. “It is meant to honour Bengal, safeguard its dignity, and protect the country,” she said.
The martyr’s day rally is held in Kolkata’s Dharmatala area, and is believed to be the biggest political event in TMC’s annual calendar. Massive crowds, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, reached Kolkata from various parts of West Bengal to attend the rally.
Addressing the rally, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said, “Today is the day to remember the karyakartas (party workers)”.
Targeting the BJP-led NDA government at centre, SP chief said, “I said this earlier in Lok Sabha and I’m saying it again today that the (central) government is not going to survive. The government will fall, and we will see that days of happiness will come for us.” “…The people of Bengal have fought with the BJP and left them behind, the same happened in Uttar Pradesh…The people sitting in the government in Delhi are in power only for a few days. ‘Woh sarkaar chalne wali nahi hai, woh sarkaar girne wali hai’…,” he further said.
TMC supremo also addressed the rally, and said, “Trinamool Congress is the only party whose 38 per cent elected MPs are women. Before the elections, many claimed to provide 33 per cent reservation for women in politics but could not do it. We are the only party that ensured 38% women representation.”
Trinamool Congress observe its annual ‘Shahid Diwas’ in remembrance of 13 people shot dead in Kolkata in 1993 during a protest movement by the West Bengal Youth Congress.
Akhilesh Yadav reached Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata at 11.40 am, accompanied by his party colleague and former Rajya Sabha member Kiranmay Nanda and Trinamool Congress member in the Rajya Sabha and national spokesperson Derek O’Brien.
Before arriving at Kolkata’s Esplanade, Akhilesh Yadav met West Bengal chief minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee at her residence in Kalighat in the southern part of Kolkata.
TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, while talking to reporters on Saturday said that the event is not just a political gathering but a tribute to the ‘Maa-Mati-Manush’ (motherland, soil, and people) of Bengal. “It is meant to honour Bengal, safeguard its dignity, and protect the country,” she said.
