Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee's Martyrs' Day speech on July 21 will be telecasted across the capitals of seven other states as well.
Banerjee's speech will be heard at the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) offices in states like Delhi, Tripura, Assam, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Meghalaya. All of these states have BJP-led state governments in power. Similar telecasting arrangements will be made at different districts of Bengal as well.
Banerjee's speech will also be setting a tone for the party's national plan against the backdrop of 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
According to a news report, the Trinamool state general secretary and party spokesman Kunal Ghosh said that in Meghalaya Trinamool is the principal opposition party and keeping the national expansion in mind, the party has decided on screening the speeches by the Trinamool Congress chief and Abhishek Banerjee in other states as well.
The state of West Bengal will also see a big-scale celebration of the day, which was being otherwise organised virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic for the last two years.
This year the Trinamool Congress will organise the programme in the traditional manner wherein the the Trinamool supremo and party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee will be addressing the gathering in front of Victoria House at Dharmatala.
The Martyrs' Day, also known as 'Shahid Diwas', has been regularly celebrated ever since Trinamool Congress came into power in 2011, after 34-years of Left Front rule.
It is an annual mass rally organised by Trinamool to commemorate the death of 13 political activists who were shot by the police in the city in 1993.