Martyrs' Day: With eye on 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Mamata Banerjee-led TMC plans massive expansion

On completing 28 years of Martyrs’ Day, Mamata Banerjee is also expected to sound the poll bugle, setting the tone for the 2024 Lok Sabha mega clash with BJP. 

Kolkata: After a landslide victory in the recently concluded state assembly elections in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress party is observing Martyrs’ Day on Wednesday (July 21, 2021) harbouring big political ambitions to take on Narendra Modi-powered BJP in 2024 polls. The day – July 21 – holds political significance for the party since it was on this day in 1993 that 13 people were shot by the Bengal Police in Kolkata during a rally by West Bengal Youth Congress under Mamata Banerjee. Since then, Mamata Banerjee and her party has been observing July 21 as the TMC Martyrs’ Day.    However, according to the political pundits, using Martyrs’ Day as a platform, the ruling TMC is trying to spread its wings in different states, with an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.