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News Desk: On Sunday, over 500 Congress workers from Cachar district of Assam officially joined the TMC following the footsteps of former president of All India Mahila Congress Sushmita Dev. She asked them to form a strong IT setup to counter BJP and also distributed TMC flags to them and asked them to display them in front of their houses.
She said “BJP spreads lies in a cleverly presentable manner that attracts common people which Congress did not realise. We are going to make our own IT setup so strong that we will highlight the lies of the BJP before common people using digital media. This is the need of the hour and we are going to train each and every member of the Trinamool Congress on how to stay relevant on social media. We’ll constantly discuss BJP’s lies and our party members will counter the BJP in their own language”
At the event, she said “At one point, Mamata Banerjee left the Congress party but she did not forget the ideology. I have already said that my father’s principles are always with me and I haven’t compromised those. He is my political guru also and I will always carry his legacy wherever I am”
“Congress party lost elections to BJP in almost all the states but BJP failed to cross the Trinamool hurdle in West Bengal. Whoever likes to take a stand against BJP is welcome to our party now. Hundreds of people from various parts of the northeast have already called us and expressed their desire to join the Trinamool Congress Party. We are going to fight hard in Tripura but our ultimate goal is to dethrone the BJP from the centre” she added.
Criticising the Congress for joining hands with the AIUDF to win the election in Assam, she said “Assam Pradesh Congress Committee, at one point, made a written resolution that at any circumstances, Congress will not join hands with communal forces like the BJP and the AIUDF. Now, after the election is over, they are talking about dissolving the alliance. But no Congress worker can say that their party will never join hands with the AIUDF again during any election”
Sushmita also informed that West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and National general secretary of the All India Trinamool Congress Party, Abhishek Banerjee, along with some other leaders of the party are going to visit Barak Valley soon. She left for Kolkata to meet Abhishek Banerjee and other party leaders after the joining event on Sunday afternoon.
