The process to set up the stage for the Martyr’s Day rally on 21 July began today.
Two stages will be constructed opposite Statesman House on Chittaranjan Avenue. Senior police officers and Trinamul Congress leaders held meetings regarding the construction of the stage. Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee will be the key speaker at the meeting.
Party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee will address the gathering along with a host of party MLAs and MPs. The state president Subrata Bakshi will preside over the meeting. As the construction of the podium progresses, party leaders and senior police officials will oversee the construction. Finally, Mamata Banerjee and the commissioner of police Manoj Kumar Verma will inspect the site. Meetings to manage traffic on 21 July will be held in Lalbazar from next week.
Steel frame is used to increase the load bearing capacity of the podium. Posters inviting people to join the rally will be put up across the state.
Trinamul Congress expects the rally to be the biggest one since it started three decades ago, Party workers and sympathisers will come from the districts and will me at various sites including Kashudiram Anushilan Kendra, Rajdanga stadium, Yuba Bharati Krirangan, Milan Mela ground. Abhishek Banerjee will visit the makeshift camps to see the arrangements. Trinamul Congress has written to the railways to reserve trains.