Launching an all-out protest against the BJP-led Union government in Kolkata, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday took a dig at the saffron party with an oversized washing machine on stage wherein she put a black cloth that ‘symbolically’ turned white after wash. Slogans of “BJP washing machine” were raised at the protest.
The Trinamool Congress supremo started her two-day sit-in demonstration in the Bengal capital to protest the BJP government's alleged discriminatory attitude against the state. Banerjee sat overnight in front of Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar's statue on Red Road in the heart of the city, surrounded by a cohort of TMC leaders and workers under television camera arclights.
She urged all political parties in the country to unitedly fight the BJP in next year's Lok Sabha election, in a departure from an earlier decision to remain equi-distant from both the Congress and the right-wing party ruling India's federal polity.