Youth wing chief and the ruling party’s de facto Number Two, Abhishek Banerjee, launched the programme with a brief, live message on Facebook at 4pm, urging youths to set aside all differences and join hands to help Bengal get back on its feet. Especially those of us who live in Bengal, we are faced with a multi-faceted crisis. I request everyone to come forward to help Bengal in this dark hour, by setting aside all differences…. A month from Thursday, there will be a mega virtual orientation programme, in which a meet-and-greet exercise with the one lakh members of the initiative will happen. A Bengal minister said poll consultant Prashant Kishor and his Indian Political Action Committee were major contributors to the planning and the execution of the Bangla’r Jubo Shokti programme.

Source: The Telegraph June 11, 2020 22:18 UTC