Kolkata, Senior TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee left the Martyrs' Day rally immediately after his nearly 23-minute speech on Tuesday amid reports of a verbal exchange with party supremo Mamata Banerjee over exceeding his allotted speaking time, though he denied any altercation and said he had other engagements.
According to sources in the Mamata Banerjee camp, the list of speakers at the rally near Birla Planetarium area was unusually long and all leaders had been instructed to keep their speeches brief so that everyone could be accommodated.
