Overview
- Four separate Martyrs' Day programmes are scheduled for July 21 in Kolkata, with rival Trinamool factions, the NCPI and the Congress each planning their own commemorations.
- The Calcutta High Court moved the Mamata Banerjee faction's rally to the Birla Planetarium and Kolkata Police denied the traditional Victoria House site, forcing alternative venues and participant limits.
- NCPI leader Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar announced an independent NCPI event and the Congress secured Shahid Minar grounds while reportedly inviting Mamata Banerjee to join on the condition she admits leaving the Congress was a mistake.
- The Ritabrata Banerjee faction has scheduled a Mayo Road programme that it says will prioritise the 1993 martyrs' families on stage and exclude cultural performances.
- Leaders frame the day as a live test of symbolic ownership and mobilisation for competing blocs, with Mamata alleging martyrs' families are being pressured or offered inducements to skip her rally, a development that could shape who emerges as the legitimate opposition in West Bengal.