Mamata Banerjee’s Virtual Rally On July 21, May Kick-Off Bengal Campaign

People ought to collect on the sales space stage from 1 pm, Mamata Banerjee mentioned (File)

Kolkata:

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will handle a digital rally on July 21 to mark the martyrs’ day, which the Trinamool Congress social gathering has been organising yearly because it got here into being in 1998.

This 12 months’s 21st July was anticipated to be a mega occasion the place Mamata Banerjee was anticipated to launch her marketing campaign for West Bengal Assembly elections due in 2021. She is more likely to kick off the marketing campaign when she addresses the rally through Facebook at 2 pm.

Speaking after a digital assembly with social gathering leaders this afternoon, Ms Banerjee mentioned, “We can’t mark 21st July this time at the Maidan. But at 2 pm sharp on that day I will address everyone. People should gather at the booth level from 1 pm, about 30 people at each place. You will hoist flags, pay respects to the martyrs and from 2 to 3 pm, I will speak.”

There are about 80,000 cubicles in Bengal. If 30 individuals collect at every sales space, round 2.5 lakh individuals can take part.

This is the primary time the Trinamool chief will use the digital medium to handle a rally. The BJP has already held six such rallies, the primary by BJP chief Amit Shah. The BJP had claimed that they had arrange 70,000 tv units throughout Bengal so individuals might take part in Mr Shah’s rally. Ms Banerjee had responded to the occasion, saying, “The Trinamool does not have that kind of money.”

On the July 21 yearly, Trinamool Congress historically holds an enormous rally in Kolkata, attended by no less than 5 lakh individuals from town and the districts. Till a few years in the past, the rally can be held at Victoria home in central Kolkata with individuals jamming the arterial Chowringhee Road for practically one kilometre.

Ms Banerjee later determined to carry the rally on the Maidan, additionally referred to as the  Brigade Parade Ground, that may accommodate an estimated 10 lakh individuals.