Mamata Banerjee to start 'BJP hatao, desh bachao' campaign on August 15

Launching a direct campaign against the ruling government, TMC Chief & West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said the party will start 'BJP hatao, desh bachao' campaign on August 15^th.

Addressing the TMC's annual Martyrs' Day rally in Esplanade and also spelling out the party's electoral strategy, Mamata said 2019 will be a huge blow for the BJP for which Bengal will show the path.

Assailing the BJP for not being stop incidents of mob-lynching, she said, “the way lynching is happening everywhere in the country, they are creating Talibanis among people.”

“ In BJP & RSS, there are good people whom I respect but some are playing dirty games,” she added.

The TMC observes the Martyrs' Day every year on July 21 in its bid to pay homage to 13 Youth Congress workers, allegedly killed in police firing in 1993 during the Left Front regime in West Bengal. Banerjee was a leader of the Youth Congress at that time, said a PTI report.

The rally also comes a day after the no-confidence motion against the Modi government was decisively defeated 325-126.

Banerjee had earlier said her party was supporting the motion against the BJP government at the Centre in the greater interest of the Opposition unity, and the TMC had issued a whip to its Lok Sabha MPs, asking them to be present in the House yesterday.