KOLKATA: On the first day of the New Year, which coincides with the foundation day anniversary of the Trinamool Congress, the party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, gave a call to her party to stand firm in protecting the democratic rights of the people of the state in the days to come.
In her social media message released on Thursday morning, the Chief Minister did not name the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) directly, but tuned her message in such a way that it was clear that her target was the Union government and the ruling party at the Centre.
CM Banerjee began her message by recollecting how, since its foundation on January 1, 1998, the Trinamool Congress had relentlessly pursued the movement against the former CPI(M)-led Left state government in West Bengal, though she did not refer to the Left Front directly.