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Shaheed Diwas 2025 Highlights: 'Terror unleashed on Bengali language, BJP intruding upon our basic freedoms', says CM Mamata at rally

July 22, 2025 12:22 pm

Shaheed Diwas Rally Today Highlights: The annual Shahid Diwas rally commemorates the death of 13 Youth Congress workers in 1993 after the police resorted to lathi-charge and opened fire at protesters demanding that voter ID be made the sole document required for voting

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Omar hops a fence to reach Martyrs’ cemetery: ‘Policemen sometimes forget the law’

July 15, 2025 2:44 am

Martyrs' Day Row: CM drove there a day after he and other political leaders were confined inside their homes

TMC district leaders to meet in Kolkata today, discuss July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally

June 14, 2025 1:44 am

This year’s rally holds special significance, as it will be the last Martyrs’ Day gathering before the 2026 State Assembly elections

Mahatma Gandhi Death Anniversary 2025: Martyrs' Day emphasises the value of freedom, patriotism, and the nation's great appreciation for those who fought for its independence. (Express Archive Photo)

Mahatma Gandhi Death Anniversary 2025: Know the date, history, and significance of Martyrs' Day

January 30, 2025 11:13 am

Mahatma Gandhi Death Anniversary 2025: Every year on January 30, India observes Martyrs' Day to honour those who made sacrifices for their nation.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the Martyrs' Day rally on Sunday. (Express photo by Partha Paul)

Takeaways from Mamata’s Martyrs’ Day rally: Targeting Modi govt, offering shelter to ‘helpless’ Bangladeshis, show of regional straps

July 22, 2024 9:44 am

Akhilesh Yadav addressed the mega TMC rally along with Mamata and Abhishek Banerjee, even as TMC supremo issued a stern warning to errant party leaders and workers

How did July 21 come to be marked as Shaheed Diwas?

July 21, 2024 2:33 pm

The rally is going to be the party's biggest political event in the annual calendar as it steps ahead to outline its plans and strategy.

For several years now, Mamata Banerjee has used the rally pulpit to set the TMC’s roadmap for the next 12 months. (Express photo by Partha Paul)

Signals Mamata is expected to send at TMC’s Martyrs’ Day event today

July 21, 2024 11:16 am

Akhilesh Yadav expected to attend event in Kolkata, hold meeting with Bengal CM, Abhishek Banerjee about Opposition strategy for Budget Session

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Akhilesh Yadav to be present, leaders from Sena UBT likely to attend TMC’s ‘Martyrs’ Day’ mega rally in Kolkata tomorrow

July 20, 2024 8:01 pm

Mamata Banerjee said, “We informed the railway more than one month ago. I was the railway minister; I know how the railway works. They should have increased the frequency of trains to disperse the crowd smoothly but they didn’t.”

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In Kashmir, leaders across political spectrum say put under house arrest on Martyrs’ Day

July 14, 2024 7:15 am

BJP ally Altaf Bukhari claims prevented from going towards the martyrs’ cemetery

Shaheed Diwas: When Bhagat Singh rebuked his father for writing a mercy plea

March 24, 2024 12:16 pm

In a final bid to save his son, Bhagat Singh’s father wrote to the tribunal, pleading that his son was innocent, and the judges grant him mercy. Bhagat Singh, however, was not willing to compromise on his principles.