CM Mamata urges Opposition to unite against BJP for 2024 polls

Several leaders from Opposition parties were present for the screening in Delhi - from the Congress, the NCP, and the AAP, among others

Fresh from a landslide victory in the Assembly elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday urged the Opposition to prepare for a “united” fight against the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Pointing out that the BJP wants to make the country a “surveillance state”, she said: “We have to start planning now.”

The CM was addressing people virtually on Martyrs’ Day, the biggest annual event organised by her party, the Trinamool Congress, to commemorate 13 deaths in a police firing during a Youth Congress rally in 1993.

The event was live-streamed on giant screens in several parts of the