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Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee connected Tuesday (June 2, 2026) started her day-long dharna successful cardinal Kolkata to protestation against alleged post-poll attacks connected enactment workers and leaders pursuing the BJP's triumph successful caller assembly elections.
Ms. Banerjee reached the dharna tract astatine Esplanade's Y-channel aft the TMC's entreaty to clasp the protestation astatine the adjacent Rani Rashmoni Road was turned down by the Kolkata Police.
"We were not fixed support to acceptable up a signifier oregon usage microphones," Ms. Banerjee said, portion addressing the assemblage utilizing a megaphone.
The protestation was marked by chaos, with TMC workers shouting slogans amid the erstwhile main minister's speech.
Ms. Banerjee was seen accompanied by the party's aged guards Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra, Derek O'Brien, Kalyan Banerjee and Dola Sen, amid the conspicuous lack of astir of the caller faces who won the assembly seats connected TMC tickets.
The enactment supremo, however, asserted that the dharna, to protestation Saturday's onslaught connected her nephew and TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, alleged post-poll unit and hawker eviction, volition proceed till the evening arsenic scheduled.
