Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced that her party would hold an "Oust BJP from India" programme from August 9 to August 30 after alleging that the BJP had "failed on all fronts" including keeping good relations with foreign countries, especially neighbouring ones.<br/><br/>Addressing a massive rally in Kolkata, she said the Centre is trying to browbeat us with Saradha, Narada cases, but we are not afraid of it as none of us is guilty. <br/><br/>Banerjee said the TMC would file a defamation case against the CBI and other central agencies for "harassing and defaming" TMC leaders.<br/><br/>The TMC holds a 'martyr's day' rally on July 21 every year in remembrance of 13 youth Congress activists who were killed in police firing in Kolkata in 1993. Banerjee was then a leader of the West Bengal Youth Congress.<br/><br/>She accused the central government of not allowing stategovernments to work freely and trying to intefere in their affairs.<br/><br/>Voicing her party's support to those who will fight the BJP, she said, West Bengal will stand besides Sonia Gandhi, Lalu Prasad, Nitish Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal and all those who will oppose the BJP.<br/><br/>She also accused the Centre of unleashing central agencies like the CBI and the Enforcement Ddepartment against those who had opposed demonetisation and GST roll-out in haste.<br/><br/>Described the prevailing situation in the country as worse than during the Emergency, she said opposition parties and a section of the media were being targeted for "speaking against" the Modi government.
News On AIR | July 21, 2017 8:07 PM
TMC to hold "Oust BJP from India" programme from August 9 -30 : Mamata