Trinamool Congress plans own TV news channel

Calcutta News.Net
Thursday 30th December, 2010

The Trinamool Congress will launch its own television news channel to counter 'the false propaganda' of West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), party chief Mamata Banerjee said here Thursday.

The channel will be called 'Maa Mati Manus'.

'Unlike the CPI-M, we don't have any television news channel to take our views before the public. We will launch our own channel through which we will counter the CPI-M's false allegations. The channel will telecast the truth and air the views of the common people,' Banerjee, also the railway minister, said while addressing a rally here at Dum Dum.

Lambasting channels which propagate the agenda of the communists, she said: 'Only a few channels sometimes try to broadcast the truth. So we will launch our own channel - Maa Mati Manus - which will telecast the facts.'

Maa Mati Manus (mother, soil and people) is a catchy Trinamool Congress slogan which Banerjee coined at the height of her anti-farmland acquisition agitation in Singur and Nandigram in the state.

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