Senior leaders, including state education minister Partha Chatterjee and state urban development minister Firhad Hakim along with several MLAs and other leaders were present.
Within 36 hours of former Trinamool second-in-command Mukul Roy's first public rally at Rani Rashmoni Avenue where he made serious allegations against the party's top brass, the north Kolkata youth wing of the party put up a counter rally. Held at the same place in central Kolkata, it saw top party leaders, without naming Mukul, call him 'gaddar' (betrayer) and 'Kalidas' (one who ends up harming himself).
Senior leaders, including state education minister Partha Chatterjee and state urban development minister Firhad Hakim along with several MLAs and other leaders were present.
State president for the party's women's wing and minister of state for health Chandrima Bhattacharya said people who had made their fortune in the party were now foulmouthing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. "It is she who picked him up from the dust and sent him to Delhi. He enjoyed the privilege for so many years and now has changed sides to hide his misdeeds thinking that the party at Centre will help. He doesn't know that the law will take its own course," Bhattacharya said.
Admitting that the TMC had once been a part of the NDA, Hakim said, "Although we don't subscribe to their political ideologies, the tie-up was done looking at one man, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. At present, the man who is at the helm of party affairs is also behind mass killings in Gujarat. We cant agree to his ideologies. Those who have joined him have given up their own principal."
Party MLA Arjun Singh said that without the backing of Mamata, Mukul would not be able to win even a councillor election. "He had said that he has his men at 77,000 booths of the state but I am challenging him. If he can name even seven persons of the party, of seven booths at Kanchrapara, I will give up my political career. He can only be called a 'gaddar' and Kalidas," Singh said.
On November 10, from a BJP rally at the same place, Mukul had alleged that the the logo of Biswa Bangla belonged to a private entity owned by Abhishek Banerjee.
In another development on Monday, Abhishek had sent a legal notice to Mukul which said that the statement made by him at a public meeting was concocted and that it was a conspiracy. He has also been asked to tender an unconditional apology in the next 48 hours to avoid legal steps against him.
Mukul's lawyer, however said that he stuck to what he had said and that there was no question of an apology.
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