Kolkata: On Wednesday, the Trinamool Congress said that the BJP-led Union government has denied its request for permission to conduct a protest march in the nation's capital in October to protest the federal government's withholding of funds for Bengal under MGNREGA and other initiatives.
At the party's Martyrs' Day rally on July 21, TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee declared that on Gandhi Jayanti (October 2), the party would conduct a large protest in Delhi against the central government for blocking funding allocated for Bengal under MGNREGA and other initiatives.