Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress MP from Diamond Harbour and party's national general secretary came down heavily on the BJP-led Centre and said the proposed One Nation One Election Bill is unconstitutional and will take away the voting rights of the people.
In a bid to develop mass contact, Trinamul Congress is going to launch Manusher Sathe, Manusher Pashe (Party with the people, beside the people) programme.
A CPM, Trinamul Congress clash that resulted in ransacking and bombardment at an area committee office of the CPM in Durgapur grabbed centre stage on the day of Bengal bandh today.
Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress national general secretary and MP from Diamond Harbour
While speaking to news persons at his residence at Salt Lake on his choice of BJP to begin his political career, he said it is the only all India party, which, he claimed, was fighting the corruption of the ruling Trinamul Congress in the state.
The TMC was scheduled to organise two big rallies at Kushmandi and Kumarganj in the district today and all the preparations were done, party leaders said.
At Selimabad, she campaigned for Alok Majhi and Shampa Dhara, her party candidates in Jamalpur and Raina, at Gantar for Madhusudan Bhattacharya who is contesting in Memari and Siddiqullah Chowdhury contesting from Monteswar seats.
Trinamul Rajya Sabha MPs Derek O'Brien, Nadimul Haque, and the party's vice president Subrata Mukherjee today expressed their grief at the death of 21 CRPF jawans.
The returning officer had cancelled Kumar's nomination.
Hundreds of people stood on either side of the rally route to take photos of Mamata Banerjee with their mobile phones. The people cheered and chanted the new Trinamul Congress slogan 'Khela Hobe' (the game is on).
