Opposition leaders remotely participate in Trinamool’s Martyrs’ Day

Trinamool sees the attendance of heavyweights from various parties gives as a positive sign.

Opposition leaders on Wednesday remotely participated in the Martyrs’ Day observed by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and listened to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s speech here in Delhi at a special function organised by the party. The leaders who dropped by at the Constitution Club, where screens were put up relaying Ms. Banerjee’s speech, included senior Congress leaders P. Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh, NCP leader Sharad Pawar, DMK’s Tiruchi Siva, RJD’s Manoj K Jha, Samajwadi Party’s Ramgopal Yadav, AAP’s Sanjay Singh, TRS’s Keshava Rao, Shiv Sena’s Priyanka Chaturvedi and Akali Dal’s Balwinder Singh Bhunder. The significant absentees were the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Biju Janata Dal.