India News | Bengal Will Lead India: Mamata Banerjee
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Days ahead of the opposition INDIA bloc meeting, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that West Bengal will lead the country in every field and all will get their due respect.
Kolkata, Dec 12 (PTI) Days ahead of the opposition INDIA bloc meeting, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that West Bengal will lead the country in every field and all will get their due respect.
The Trinamool Congress supremo is scheduled to travel to New Delhi to participate in an INDIA coalition meeting next week.
"What (West) Bengal is doing today is making other states contemplate. What Bengal thinks today, India will think tomorrow... We will lead India, and Bengal will lead the country tomorrow in every field.
"We will show respect to everybody, give employment to everyone, and nobody will be deprived," she said.
Banerjee was speaking at a public distribution programme at Kanchenjunga Stadium in Siliguri.
The leaders of the INDIA bloc are scheduled in New Delhi on December 19 when there is likely to be a discussion on seat-sharing among the political parties in the Lok Sabha elections.
Discussions are likely to be held on the results of the assembly polls in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh, sources in the Congress said.
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