Didikebolo: CPIM prepares list of questions to ask Mamata Banerjee to counter her newly launched campaign

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s new campaign – Didike bolo (tell Didi/talk to Didi), sharing a phone number and website – has become a talking point all over the state in a couple of days since its launch. The Opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist) and other Left Front allies are now trying to hit out at Banerjee and her party through the campaign.

The publicity exercise of the Trinamool Congress is aimed at connecting with the masses. The CPIM leadership has thus decided to use its mass organisations and social media to frame questions to be placed before Banerjee. The strategy was chalked out at a recent meeting of the state secretariat of the party.

The CPIM’s students’ body, Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), will march to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) office on SN Banerjee Road on August 7 with some “critical questions” for the chief minister.

Banners and hoardings will pose questions such as this – “Didike bolo (tell Didi) that we want 26,000 vacant posts in the KMC to be filled up”. Some of the other questions that the CPIM hopes will embarrass Mamata are – “How did the government loan go up to over rupees four lakh crore in eight years of the Trinamool Congress rule?”, “Why was farmer Shiladitya accused of being a Maoist and arrested?” “Why did Ambika Mahapatra have to face harassment for sharing a cartoon?”, “What is the exact number of registered unemployed persons in the state during the Trinamool Congress rule?”