Summary:
Agartala, Oct 26 (PTI) Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee will hold a public rally in the Tripura state capital on October 31, party leader Kunal Ghosh said here on Tuesday.
The party will follow the Model Code of Conduct as the date for civic body elections had been announced recently, Ghosh, state secretary of the party’s West Bengal unit, said.
The election to 20 urban local bodies, including Agartala Municipal Corporation, in all the eight districts, is scheduled to be held on November 25.
The TMC is trying to make inroads into Tripura ahead of the 2023 elections in the state and senior party leaders have been visiting the state to expand the party’s base.
Ghosh told reporters the TMC had scheduled a rally for Banerjee in Agartala long ago but the ruling BJP had used the administration to thwart the attempt “as they are afraid of losing power in the next elections due to bad governance”.
He alleged that many party workers were attacked in the state in the last two months ever since the party had begun building a base in Tripura.