Kolkata:
A martyr's day meeting was turned into a victory rally by the Trinamool Congress in Kolkata on Tuesday with Mamata Banerjee spelling out what her government would do when her party came to power in West Bengal in 2011.
No ifs and buts about it - for Mamata Banerjee and the thousands who congregated there to show their solidarity with her, West Bengal is Trinamool's, come 2011, and the party supremo already has big plans.
On the dais, there were several well known faces, including writer Mahasweta Devi. Also present was Keshav Rao of the Congress bearing Sonia and Rahul Gandhi's best wishes for Mamata and promising that the alliance with the Trinamool would continue for good.
It was Mamata Banerjee's first show of strength after the Lok Sabha elections in which her party won 19 seats out of 42 in West Bengal, four more than all the Left put together.
No ifs and buts about it - for Mamata Banerjee and the thousands who congregated there to show their solidarity with her, West Bengal is Trinamool's, come 2011, and the party supremo already has big plans.
On the dais, there were several well known faces, including writer Mahasweta Devi. Also present was Keshav Rao of the Congress bearing Sonia and Rahul Gandhi's best wishes for Mamata and promising that the alliance with the Trinamool would continue for good.
It was Mamata Banerjee's first show of strength after the Lok Sabha elections in which her party won 19 seats out of 42 in West Bengal, four more than all the Left put together.
