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ITDC INDIA EPRESS/ITDC NEWS R Commencing her speech on Martyrs' Day on Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appealed to the opposition to unite against the Narendra Modi government.

Martyrs' Day marks the firing on Congress protesters in Kolkata by the then ruling Left Front government on July 21, 1993. The day is among the most important events on the calendar of the Trinamool Congress and Mamata's speeches on the occasion have been keenly watched.

This time, the media glare was heightened by the TMC's victory in the Assembly polls in May, which was projected as giving Mamata more leverage as a national politician.

Mamata Banerjee thanked Congress leaders Digvijaya Singh and P. Chidambaram, Sharad Pawar of NCP, Priyanka Chaturvedi of the Shiv Sena and representatives of the Akali Dal, DMK and other parties for attending the TMC function from Constitution Club in Delhi. Underlining the 'national' emphasis of her speech, Mamata spoke in Hindi, English and Bengali.

Mamata hit out the Narendra Modi government on a number of issues She said the motto of the Modi government was "capture election, capture judiciary, capture media houses."