New Delhi, June 2 -- Despite having no police permission to hold the sit-in protest, former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has remained defiant that her party, Trinamool Congress (TMC), will go ahead with the demonstrations against the alleged attacks on party leaders and workers post the Assembly elections, and the Railways' hawker eviction drive. Track TMC protest in Bengal LIVE Updates only at Livemint.

Speaking about not getting permission to hold the sit-in protest, Mamata Banerjee declared that she will sit, wherever stopped. Mamata Banerjee also said that 12 TMC workers had been killed since the Assembly elections and that thousands of party activists had been arrested, while many others had been forced to flee their homes.

"Why ...