BJP dubs it a farewell rally
Kolkata, Mar 10:
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is set to hold a mega rally in Kolkata kick starting party’s campaign for Lok Sabha polls.
The Trinamool Congress will on Sunday throw open its campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls with a grand rally at Kolkata’s famed Brigade Parade Grounds. Party supremo and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is set to galvanise supporters and set the tone for the general elections.
The TMC’s ‘Jana Garjan Sabha’ comes at a time when Sandeshkhali is still simmering from the Shahjahan Sheikh row, who has been accused of sexual harassment and land grab and is currently under the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation.
While Mamata Banerjee will pull all the stops to charge her supporters who are expected to attend the rally in large numbers, Bengal Assembly’s Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari will hold a public meeting at Akratala area under Nazat police station in North 24 Parganas district.The rally is expected to centre around the alleged withholding of the state’s financial dues by the central government, a contentious issue that has dominated state politics for the past two years.
The TMC’s mega event will feature three platforms, including a cross ramp, in a departure from the conventional dias to ensure that the speakers — mainly Mamata Banerjee and TMC’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee — are closer to a much larger section of the crowd.We are making a unique stage this time so that we can reach out to the majority of people gathered at the Maidan, who on other occasions, would find it difficult to have a proper look at the leaders standing on the dais, who would be far away from them,” a senior party leader told media.
The BJP has derided the rally terming it as the party’s “farewell rally”.
