Kolkata, August 6
Ms Mamata Banerjee has conveyed to her close party colleagues that she will not be rejoining the Lok Sabha. She wants the Trinamool Congress to launch a “save democracy campaign” in Bengal soon as part of the electioneering in the forthcoming state Assembly poll due early next year.

She invited all like-minded political parties to join her anti-Marxist stir for dislodging the CPM, in power in Bengal since 1977.

However, before returning to the city from the Capital, she wanted to meet the President, Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam, the Election Commission and the Delimitation Commissioner to seek her party’s intervention in protecting their legal and constitutional rights and privileges to participate in the elections and democratic functioning, which had been taken away by the ruling CPM, she said.