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BJP trying to spark communal riots: Mamata

India Blooms News Service | | Jul 21, 2014, at 08:04 pm

Kolkata, July 21 (IBNS) Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trying to spread communal hatred by sparking riots in the state as she urged her party workers to keep eye on "their conspiracy".

"They are trying to create problem. But there is no place for communal politics in Bengal," said Mamata Baneree at a mammoth rally at Esplanade on the occasion of the Martyr's Day.

She said BJP has two MPs now from Bengal but it will come down to zero in next polls and they can never make it three from two.

"On the soil of Bengal you can never go up to three," she said.

Trinamool Congress observed its 21st anniversary of the Martyr’s Day Monday in memory of 13 youth Congress activists who died in a police firing in 1993.

Mamata Banerjee addressed a rally from a grand makeshift podium erected in front of Victoria House at Esplanade located in heart of the eastern metropolis as the traffic in the city came to a standstill.

She said party leaders will come up from hard work and not by proclaiming themselves as leaders.

"Work in the villages, districts, cities, suburbs everywhere. We will find you. Leaders do not drop from trees as said by Swami Vivekananda, they are born from hard work," she said.

"I want a leader who is from the soil and who is grounded. We fought for 34 years [the Left], and now I want another generation to fight for another 40 years for people," she said, adding that there is no lead to lobby for leadership roles.

Banerjee said she would paint and write to raise money for polls, postering and other party work.

"I will paint, write when there would be polls. We do not have crores of rupees, we have to raise our funds like this," she said.

She said in January TMC will hold another rally in Brigade.

Thousands of Trinamool Congress activists had gathered in Kolkata since Sunday morning. Temporary night camps and kiosks were set up at various points to facilitate Trinamool members who had come to join the rally from remote parts of various West Bengal districts.

#Mamata Banerjee # Esplanade rally # July 21 rally # Martyrs rally

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