Watch: TMC supporters throng Kolkata for 21 July rally in Mamata Banerjee's display of support after INDIA
Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Meanwhile, the rally will be seen as a display of the TMC's widespread support and influence.
Kolkata streets, lanes, and bylanes are adorned with posters and banners featuring images of the party's leader, Mamata Banerjee, inviting people to join the rally at the five-point Esplanade crossing. The 21 July rally, a long-standing tradition of the party, is held annually in remembrance of 13 Congress supporters who lost their lives during a police firing incident in 1993.
The event occurred during a march to the state secretariat, Writers Buildings, while the Left Front, led by the CPI(M), was in power in the state. It is anticipated that hundreds of thousands of people will attend this significant event.
Mamata Banerjee was the state Youth Congress chief at that time, and she continued to hold the rally on the day every year even after forming the Trinamool Congress on January 1, 1998. (With PTI inputs)
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