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Mamata Banerjee Predicts Trinamool Congress Return To Power Soon
Mamata Banerjee used a party rally to say that her party would soon return to power in West Bengal.
Her party lost the Assembly election to the Bharatiya Janata Party three months earlier.
She said she would travel across the state to meet people.
She also said she would walk if authorities stopped her from traveling.
Banerjee accused the Election Commission of India of helping manipulate the election and remove votes.
She said about 14,000 cases had been filed and that she would challenge them in the Supreme Court.
She questioned why central security forces were still in the state after the election.
She also criticized officials for removing a Trinamool Congress billboard from Abhishek Banerjee’s office.
Mamata Banerjee predicted that the Trinamool Congress would soon return to power in West Bengal.
She announced a statewide outreach tour and said she would walk if denied permission.
Banerjee accused the Bharatiya Janata Party and Election Commission of India of manipulating the Assembly election and voter revision process.
She said around 14,000 cases had been filed and that she would approach the Supreme Court with Kalyan Banerjee.
Banerjee questioned the continued presence of central forces and criticized the removal of an unauthorized Trinamool billboard in Kolkata.
- Who
- Mamata Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress chief and former West Bengal chief minister, speaking at a party student-wing rally.
- What
- She predicted the Trinamool Congress would return to power, announced a statewide tour, and accused authorities of election manipulation and political action against her party.
- Where
- Cathedral Road in Kolkata, West Bengal.
- When
- Friday, three months after the West Bengal Assembly election.
- Why
- She was addressing the foundation-day rally of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad and responding to what she described as electoral irregularities, legal cases, and actions against her party.
Key facts
- Speaker
- Mamata Banerjee
- Party
- Trinamool Congress
- State
- West Bengal
- Election outcome cited
- The Trinamool Congress lost the Assembly election to the Bharatiya Janata Party three months earlier.
- Legal cases
- Banerjee said around 14,000 cases had been filed in the preceding few months.
- Planned action
- Banerjee said she and Kalyan Banerjee would approach the Supreme Court.
- Outreach plan
- She announced a statewide visit to reach out to people.
Quotes
Mamata Banerjee
Trinamool Congress chief and former West Bengal chief minister
“If there is so much faith in the state police, why are the central forces deployed still here? If you trust the state police, why do you need the central forces?”
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“TMC will return to power soon. Watch out what happens next. The history of this electoral theft will be rewritten. A major political change will come.”
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