Mamata threatens agitation on TV digitisation issue

"When set top boxes are not in hand, analog system should be allowed to continue and the Centre has no right to blackout television. We can't simply accept this stand of the Centre," Banerjee told a press conference here.

Regretting she had not received a reply to her communication to the Centre in June seeking extension of the deadline, the chief minister said, "If necessary, we will launch a statewide movement and later spread it to the whole of India."

The Trinamool Congress supremo said that the Centre appeared to be interested in confrontation with the states on the digitisation issue.