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Trinamool to observe 21st anniversary of Martyrs Day today
Kolkata, July 21 (IBNS) West Bengals ruling Trinamool Congress will observe its 21st anniversary of the Martyrs Day Monday in memory of 13 youth Congress activists who died in a police firing in 1993.
Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will address a rally from a grand makeshift podium erected in front of Victoria House at Esplanade located in heart of the eastern metropolis.
Sources said Trinamool leadership was expecting a gathering to be over a million strong which is likely chock the traffic movement across Kolkata on the first day of the week.
“Join us, pay respect to the martyrs and make the event more meaningful,” Banerjee wrote on her official Facebook page on Sunday. The day has been described as ‘Maa-Mati-Manush Diwas (meaning a day for mother, earth and people).
Thousands of Trinamool Congress activists had already started pouring in Kolkata since Sunday morning. Temporary night camps and kiosks were set up at various points to facilitate Trinamool members who had come to join the rally from remote parts of various West Bengal districts.
According to political observers, Banerjee is expected to reveal a political roadmap for Trinamool supporters to combat the rise of BJP in the state which has significantly eaten into the vote bank politics of Bengal throwing a stiff challenge to the incumbent green brigade.
The BJP won two Lok Sabha seats from Bengal in the 2014 general elections - Asansol in Burdwan district and Darjeeling with the support of Bimal Gurung-led Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), bagging a total vote share of 16.8 percent.
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