The Trinamool Congress has said it will organise sit-in protests in districts across West Bengal on Thursday and Friday to "save democracy" and "defeat the attempts" of the Narendra Modi government to "trample" the Constitution.
While sit-in protests will take place from 10am to 6pm in all district headquarters on Thursday, similar protests will be held on Friday in every sub-division, TMC secretary general and state Minister Parthas Chatterjee told a press meet in Kolkata on Wednesday.
Asked whether the protesters will carry party flags at the sit-in protests, he said, "That will be decided by the respective TMC leadership in the area. We, however, would welcome those from outside the party fold to join the protests in the districts."
To a question, Chatterjee described the BJP heavyweights attending public meetings across the state as "migratory birds having no base".
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called off her sit-in protest on Tuesday evening after the Supreme Court forbid the CBI from taking coercive action against Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar but vowed to wage a relentless battle against the Modi government till it was ousted from power.
Banerjee, who dramatically began the dharna on Sunday evening over the CBI's bid to question Kumar, in a throwback to her street fighter politician past, said she was ending the protest following a "favourable" Supreme Court order after consulting leaders of like-minded political parties.
