Trinamul Congress will go on an all-out campaign against the BJP before the 2024 Lok Sabha election to inform people about how it has deprived Bengal after losing the Assembly election in 2021.

Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee instructed party leaders through a virtual address, today.

Party leaders included MPs, MLAs, districts and block presidents. Subrata Bakshi, state president of the party attended the virtual meeting. Mr Banerjee addressed the leaders from his Camac Street office.

Mr Banerjee highlighted the brutality of Delhi Police during the TMC MGNREGA protest in Delhi. “There is no time to wait, hit the streets against the BJP now. Tell people how our MPs were brutally assaulted,” he said.

He also launched the 2024 slogan, ‘Zamindari Hatao, Bangla Bachao’.

On Sandeshkhali, Mr Banerjee lashed out at the BJP and the duo of CPM-Congress. “On Chopra, all are silent where 4 kids lost their lives. Those kids hold no value? Our delegation met the Governor and asked him to visit Chopra. He is yet to. When the BJP delegation visited him, he went there within 24 hours. It shows where his priorities are.”

The meeting dispels the doubt spread by a section of the media that he had reportedly told his inner circle that he would confine himself in his Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency this year before the Lok Sabha election.

Mr Banerjee, it was learnt, told his party leaders particularly the block and anchal presidents to go to places like market and tea stalls to tell people about the BJP’s deprivation. They should clearly say that after losing the 2021 Assembly election handsomely, BJP has taken recourse to vendetta politics and is not clearing the dues deliberately.

They will also focus on the important decisions taken by the chief minister Mamata Banerjee that more than 24 lakh job card holders under MGNREGA scheme whose dues have not been paid by the Centre will be cleared by Miss Banerjee on 1 March. As the number of aggrieved job card holders has gone up, the budgetary provision of Rs 3700 crore kept for the purpose will be increased. There will be a massive campaign on the state government’s decision.

Mr Banerjee, it was learnt, told party leaders that they should pull up their socks and work to ensure victory of the party’s nominees in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election.

“The Lok Sabha poll is an election to teach the BJP a lesson and drive out the zamindars, who have brought down every democratic institution in the country,’’ he said.

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