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Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who, along with 19 other party Lok Sabha MPs, has merged with the little-known Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), said the faction would observe Martyrs’ Day at Rajghat
The July 21 incident was used politically; many people have built their political and personal fortunes on it, said West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari
Each group claims to be the ‘original’ flagbearer of Martyrs’ Day; all three meetings have been arranged within a 3 km radius; senior leaders have been trying to pull in crowds
Suvendu Adhikari says the former Chief Minister had always claimed to be the prime witness in the July 21, 1993 firing, but she was not questioned by the commission to give her statement
“You betrayed the martyrs, betrayed their families, and now you have betrayed the public; that is why you stand alone,” Ghosh said.
West Bengal marked Martyr’s Day on July 21, 2026, with significant rallies in Central Kolkata, drawing attention from political leaders including Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
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During the 15 years that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) remained in power, July 21 gradually transformed. What had once been a day marked by grief, sacrifice, and remembrance increasingly became a symbolic celebration of the party itself.
The party has also vowed to strengthen their fight against the BJP and bring a change in the central power in 2029.
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