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WB Election 2021: TMC Gears To 'Welcome' PM Modi By Putting Up Mamata's Posters Across Kolkata

The leadership has reportedly asked all party members to work in unity to ensure the BJP's defeat in the upcoming assembly election.

Kolkata: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mega rally on March 7, Trinamool Congress has asked the party's ward coordinators to put up flags and posters featuring Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in every nook and corner of the city with the poll 'Bangla Nijer Meyekei Chai' written on them.

Senior leaders like MP Abhishek Banerjee, state president Subrata Bakshi, senior minister and administrator of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Firhad Hakim, met the ward coordinators at the party headquarters on Thursday.

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"During the meeting, the party leadership asked the coordinators to ensure that flags, festoons, and posters of Mamata Banerjee with the poll slogan 'Bangla Nijer Meyekei Chai' (Bengal wants its daughter) are put up in every nook and corner of the city,” news agency PTI reported a TMC leader as saying after the meeting.

"This has to be done to ensure that the prime minister, during his visit, doesn't miss out on the political message -- the state stands with Mamata didi," he added.

The leadership has reportedly asked all party members to work in unity to ensure the BJP's defeat in the upcoming assembly election.

"During the meeting, our leaders asked us to work together and ensure that the BJP is defeated. We were told to iron out differences and reach out to people with the developmental work done by the state government in the last ten years," one of the coordinators said.

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Previously, Trinamool Congress delegation had met Election Commission officials to complain that the use of PM Modi's photographs in hoardings informing people of various central schemes violates the poll code.

Taking cognisance of the matter, ECI on Wednesday asked all petrol pump dealers and other agencies to remove hoardings advertising central government schemes that carry photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the premises of the facilities within 72 hours.

(With Agency Inputs)

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