Kolkata, July 20 -- West Bengal Chief Minister and All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) chairperson Mamata Banerjee inspected the arrangements for the 'Shahid Dibas' rally in Kolkata's Dharmatala area on Sunday. The event honours 13 "martyrs" who lost their lives during the 1993 Kolkata Writers Building march.

Addressing an event ahead of the AITC program, CM Banerjee said, "When CPI(M) was in power in West Bengal, we fought a lot... our comrades fought, sacrificed their lives. In their memory, we observe July 21 as Martyrs' Day, and for the past 33 years, this program has been held at the same place because many people sacrificed their lives here, some people even object to this."

For the past three decades, AITC has been carrying out e...