Thousands of women march at Mamata rally in Siliguri

Thousands of women came out on the streets of Siliguri on Sunday to march with Trinamul supremo Mamata Banerjee and other women leaders of her party in protest of the LPG price hike.

In the run-up to the crucial Bengal polls, Mamata Banerjee and her party leaders have been focusing on women voters who form almost 50 per cent of Bengal’s voters. The party is flagging the hike in the price of LPG cylinders, an emotive issue Trinamul believes can help drum up support of “mothers and sisters”.

That the strategy worked, at least for now, was evident from Sunday’s crowd of 50,000-odd among whom 75 per cent were women.