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A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister Amit Mitra were heckled outside the Planning Commission office in Delhi by Students Federation of India activists, the ruling Trinamool Congress is holding protests across the state on Wednesday in condemnation of the incident.
According to reports, the Trinamool Congress workers are staging rallies, holding protests in Kolkata and other parts of the state to protest against the SFI attack on their leaders.
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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress's general secretary Mukul Roy have urged supporters to ensure peace at the rally.
Security has been beefed up in all sensitive areas to avoid any untoward incident. The Chief Minister is also likely to return to West Bengal today as she has cancelled her scheduled meeting with Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
Mamata and the Mitra were heckled outside the Planning Commission office in the national capital by the SFI activists protesting a young comrade's death in Kolkata allegedly in police custody.
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