The Trinamul Congress's clean sweep in seven Jungle Mahal and north Bengal districts in the panchayat elections has raised the leadership's hopes that a large number of people from those areas — which had been the BJP strongholds since 2018 — will participate in the Martyrs' Day rally in Calcutta on Friday.

A source in Trinamul said after the BJP emerged as a significant political force in northern and western districts since the 2018 rural polls, the turnout of supporters from those pockets had been thin compared to the rest of the state.

"The participation of Trinamul workers from north Bengal and Jungle Mahal districts in the July 21 rally will be outstanding this year as we have won most of the rural bodies in those pockets. The leaders of these districts have been told about their specific targets for the rally. However, we are excluding a section of party workers from the flood-hit areas of north Bengal and directed them to take care of the people in crisis," Trinamul state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said.

Trinamul leaders in Calcutta have already been assigned the task of taking care of party workers from those remote pockets.