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*[[Indian Youth Congress]] | *[[Indian Youth Congress]] | ||
| leadfigures1 = [[ | | leadfigures1 = [[Manish Gupta (politician)|Manish Gupta]] | ||
| leadfigures2 = [[Mamata Banerjee]] | | leadfigures2 = [[Mamata Banerjee]] | ||
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The firing incident was a turning point in the political career of Mamata Banerjee, who was also injured in the incident. She already was a rising figure in the state politics, but now had public sympathy as well. In the coming years, the 21 July anniversary of the incident has become the largest yearly public rally of the party and Banerjee amassed a huge youth following to become an important opposition leader. She formed [[All India Trinamool Congress]] in 1997, which formed state government in 2011.<ref name="Bose2013">{{cite book|author=Sumantra Bose|title=Transforming India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=reiwAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144|date=16 September 2013|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-72819-6|pages=144–}}</ref><ref name="Gupta">{{cite book|author=Monobina Gupta|title=Didi: A Political Biography|date=18 January 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VcfjAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT20|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers India|isbn=978-93-5116-044-1|pages=20–}}</ref> | The firing incident was a turning point in the political career of Mamata Banerjee, who was also injured in the incident. She already was a rising figure in the state politics, but now had public sympathy as well. In the coming years, the 21 July anniversary of the incident has become the largest yearly public rally of the party and Banerjee amassed a huge youth following to become an important opposition leader. She formed [[All India Trinamool Congress]] in 1997, which formed state government in 2011.<ref name="Bose2013">{{cite book|author=Sumantra Bose|title=Transforming India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=reiwAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144|date=16 September 2013|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-72819-6|pages=144–}}</ref><ref name="Gupta">{{cite book|author=Monobina Gupta|title=Didi: A Political Biography|date=18 January 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VcfjAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT20|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers India|isbn=978-93-5116-044-1|pages=20–}}</ref> | ||
Today, both the Congress and the Trinamool Congress continue to observe 21 July as a "Martyrs' Day" in [[West Bengal]]. The Trinamool Congress organises the annual [[21 July Martyr's Day Rally]] at [[Esplanade More]] (Dharmatala) in Kolkata.<ref name=head>{{cite web | title = Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee summoned by commission probing 1993 police firing | url = http://headlinesindia.mapsofindia.com/social-interest-news/leaders/buddhadeb-bhattacharjee-summoned-by-commission-probing-1993-police-firing-154555.html |publisher=Headlines India|date=1 February 2014| access-date = 28 February 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | Today, both the Congress and the Trinamool Congress continue to observe 21 July as a "Martyrs' Day" in [[West Bengal]]. The Trinamool Congress organises the annual [[21 July Martyr's Day Rally]] at [[Esplanade More]] (Dharmatala) in Kolkata.<ref name=head>{{cite web | title = Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee summoned by commission probing 1993 police firing | url = http://headlinesindia.mapsofindia.com/social-interest-news/leaders/buddhadeb-bhattacharjee-summoned-by-commission-probing-1993-police-firing-154555.html | publisher = Headlines India | date = 1 February 2014 | access-date = 28 February 2014 | archive-date = 27 February 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140227032634/http://headlinesindia.mapsofindia.com/social-interest-news/leaders/buddhadeb-bhattacharjee-summoned-by-commission-probing-1993-police-firing-154555.html | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | ||
| title = 1993 Kolkata firing justified|publisher=The Pioneer | url = http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/1993-kolkata-firing-justified.html |date=27 February 2014 |author= Saugar Sengupta| access-date = 28 February 2014 }}</ref> | | title = 1993 Kolkata firing justified|publisher=The Pioneer | url = http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/1993-kolkata-firing-justified.html |date=27 February 2014 |author= Saugar Sengupta| access-date = 28 February 2014 }}</ref> | ||