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.
Bachhu Hansda has been the MLA of Tapan since 2011 and he is the Minister of State for North Bengal Development Department. As the party announced the names of the candidates, Hansda was dropped and Kalpana Kisku selected as the TMC candidate in his place.
Miss Banerjee addressed the gathering here almost at the same time that Mr Modi criticised her in a Kolkata rally.
The EC has planned to appoint 500 observers and three police observers per district for the eight-phased elections.
The 12-member election committee discussed election manifesto which will definitely highlight the public beneficiary projects such as Swasthya Sathi which so far has benefitted more than 86 lakh people and Khadhya Sathi where more than 20 lakh people have enrolled themselves.
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr Kartick Chandra Mandal did not want to comment on the controversy.
