"After Diwali, Congress will start protests in all districts against lack of jobs, industry and misrule in the state during the Trinamool Congress' four and half years' rule," WBPCC President Adhir Chowdhury said at a press conference.
Seeking to raise the tempo with the Assembly elections due in West Bengal in 2016, Chowdhury said, "the Trinamool Congress supremo (Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee) has done nothing in these years except for making false promise."
Asked about the absence of some important leaders like former WBPCC presidents Pradip Bhattacharya and Manas Bhuniya, and former Union Minister Deepa Dasmunshi from the meeting, Chowdhury said, "I cannot explain why many of them are missing, some of them may have had preoccupation."
"However, meeting was very successful and constructive discussions were held," he claimed.
"Advancement of the party is not my sole responsibity. It is collective responsibility of all," the PCC president said.
"Manas Bhuniya said he has a meeting," Chowdhury said.
Regarding Mamata Banerjee's support to the anti-BJP forces for the Bihar elections, Chowdhury said "she is doing it in her own interest. She understands electoral politics."
"She had softened owing to CBI investigation in chitfund cases, but now she is protesting to show that she is against BJP," Chowdhury said.
"She knows that if BJP wins the Bihar elections, it may spell danger for her in the coming Assembly polls in West Bengal in 2016," he said.
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