Key Points
It was blown on this years first Sunday from Kolkatas Brigade Parade Ground by the Communist Party of India Marxist, a party that once ruled the state but does not have a single seat in the Assembly today and is desperate to make a political comeback..
Its youth wing, the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), organised a massive rally called Insaaf Brigade, pulling off a turnout that the CPI(M) can be proud of..
Mamata called the INDIA ally CPI(M) a terrorist party, tactically held her silence on the Congress, and took the Bharatiya Janata Party head-on on Ayodhya, its agency raj and its threats to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act before the first vote was cast in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections...
Most founding members of the TMC those who were with Mamata when she broke from the Congress and formed her own party 25 years ago are senior citizens, in their 60s and 70s, and outraged at the broad hints that the young Turks are dropping..
At the soft launch of her poll campaign on Tuesday, Mamata Banerjee attacked the CPI(M) and the BJP but said not a word about the Congress, indicating she is open to seat sharing with this partner in the INDIA alliance..
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