Trinamool Congress (TMC) heavyweight Anubrata Mondal on Friday exuded confidence and said that as long as Didi (Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee) was by his side, he was not demoralised. The remarks by the arrested TMC leader comes a day after the party chairperson offered him her support and said that he should be given a “hero’s welcome when released from prison”.
“Didi is by my side and that is enough…. None spends their entire life in jail. An undertrial has to be released at one point in time. I am not demoralised,” Mr. Mondal told journalists when he was produced before a court at Bidhannagar in connection with a 2010 bomb blast case in Magalkote.
“Kesto (Anubrata Mondal) will come out of prison one day and you will accord him a hero’s welcome when he comes out of prison,” Ms. Banerjee had said at a TMC workers meeting on Thursday.