Kolkata, Dec 30 (IANS) 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.
