The Trinamool Congress (TMC) leadership on Sunday organised protests across West Bengal, demanding the release of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and PM Awas Yojana.
The call for the protests was given by TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee at the party’s annual Martyr’s Day rally at the Brigade Parade Grounds on July 21. Initially, the protests were to be organised in the form of a gherao outside the houses of leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on August 5, but the Calcutta High Court restrained the Trinamool leadership from organising any such programme. The TMC leadership then decided to hold the event on August 6 at the block level.
