The Trinamool Congress is ready to announce its candidates for the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal for the upcoming normal elections throughout its mega public rally at Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Grounds on Sunday.
Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee is predicted to announce the names of the candidates in the course of the rally, the occasion stated in a launch.
Christened ‘Jana Garjan Sabha’, the Trinamool Congress will kickstart its Lok Sabha marketing campaign with the rally that can function three platforms, together with a cross ramp, with Mamata Banerjee and the occasion’s nationwide normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee taking centre-stage as the principle audio system.
The rally’s overarching theme revolves across the alleged withholding of West Bengal’s monetary dues by the central authorities, a contentious concern that has dominated state politics for the previous two years.
“We are organising a rally at Brigade Parade Grounds after a long time. It is going to be a historic event. Our party supremo Mamata Banerjee will give a message which we will take to every nook and corner of West Bengal and ensure the defeat of the BJP in all the 42 Lok Sabha seats of the state,” Trinamool Congress chief Firhad Hakim was quoted as saying by information company PTI.
Within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Trinamool Congress’s tally dropped to 22 seats from 34 within the earlier polls, regardless of having a well-entrenched grassroots organisation. The BJP clocked a formidable efficiency by clinching 18 parliamentary seats within the state.
The Trinamool Congress’s mega rally on the Brigade Parade Grounds holds significance as that is the occasion’s first large-scale gathering for the reason that January 2019 Opposition assembly, the place leaders from 19 Opposition events joined forces in a show of solidarity.
The rally additionally comes as Mamata Banerjee introduced in January that her occasion would go solo within the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal following variations with the Congress over the allocation of seats.
Nonetheless, the Trinamool Congress indicated final month that it was open to holding seat-sharing talks once more with the Congress, sources advised India Right this moment TV.
BJP PLANS COUNTER PROTEST IN SANDESHKHALI
The BJP has derided the Trinamool Congress’s mega rally, branding it because the occasion’s “farewell rally”.
Senior BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari disparaged Trinamool Congress’s leaders as “goons and corrupt”, predicting their “impending downfall”.
In a countermove, the BJP plans to carry a rally in Sandeshkhali, the place allegations of sexual abuse by a number of ladies in opposition to native Trinamool Congress chief Sheikh Shahjahan and his supporters have surfaced.
(with inputs from PTI)