Akhilesh meets Mamata in bid to type anti-BJP entrance sans Congress

By Express News Service

KOLKATA: Amid widening variations with the Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav met Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her Kalighat residence on Friday. The two leaders are believed to be eager on forming an anti-BJP, non-Congress opposition entrance. Yadav reached Kolkata to attend a two-day nationwide government committee assembly of his get together.

The assembly between the heavyweights is claimed to be important within the wake of discuss of forming a platform of like-minded regional events who’re in favour of sustaining an equal distance from each the BJP and the Congress. Mamata can also be prone to meet Biju Janata Dal chief Navin Patnaik subsequent week as a follow-up to her assembly with Yadav.

Sources within the TMC stated Mamata, throughout her assembly with Yadav, expressed her anger over the Congress criticising her get together for contesting the Meghalaya elections and made it clear that she wouldn’t be a part of the Congress-led alliance.

Yadav had supported the TMC through the high-octane Bengal Assembly elections which was reciprocated by Mamata when she campaigned for the previous Uttar Pradesh chief minister through the 2022 election.

Mamata convened a gathering on Friday the place the get together’s MPs, MLAs and leaders have been current. TMC MP Sudip Bandopadhyay stated the Congress isn’t doing the proper factor on the proper time and is making an attempt to be the ‘big boss’ of opposition events.

“The Congress is not giving regional parties due respect. If Rahul Gandhi is portrayed as the face of the Opposition alliance, it will benefit the BJP. We are not talking about a third front right now but the TMC will discharge its responsibilities as the largest opposition party in India. We are in a position to oppose the BJP with other regional parties in the coming days,” he stated.

The senior TMC chief stated the Congress already joined arms with the CPI(M) in Bengal and within the coming days it would observe the identical path because the BJP.

The West Bengal CM made it clear after her get together’s defeat in Murshidabad’s Sagardighi by-election that the TMC is not going to be a part of the anti-BJP alliance with the Congress saying, “We can fight against the BJP alone.”

Both Yadav and Mamata have maintained their distance from the concept of a Congress-led alliance towards the BJP and at completely different factors of time, they’ve floated the concept of a non-BJP, non-Congress platform with leaders equivalent to Telangana chief minister Okay Chandrasekhar Rao and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal.

On a number of events, Mamata and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, who’s the TMC’s nationwide common secretary, alleged that Congress MLAs had joined the BJP after profitable elections and the grand outdated get together has no proper to steer the opposition alliance towards the BJP. 

KOLKATA: Amid widening variations with the Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav met Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her Kalighat residence on Friday. The two leaders are believed to be eager on forming an anti-BJP, non-Congress opposition entrance. Yadav reached Kolkata to attend a two-day nationwide government committee assembly of his get together.

The assembly between the heavyweights is claimed to be important within the wake of discuss of forming a platform of like-minded regional events who’re in favour of sustaining an equal distance from each the BJP and the Congress. Mamata can also be prone to meet Biju Janata Dal chief Navin Patnaik subsequent week as a follow-up to her assembly with Yadav.

Sources within the TMC stated Mamata, throughout her assembly with Yadav, expressed her anger over the Congress criticising her get together for contesting the Meghalaya elections and made it clear that she wouldn’t be a part of the Congress-led alliance.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Yadav had supported the TMC through the high-octane Bengal Assembly elections which was reciprocated by Mamata when she campaigned for the previous Uttar Pradesh chief minister through the 2022 election.

Mamata convened a gathering on Friday the place the get together’s MPs, MLAs and leaders have been current. TMC MP Sudip Bandopadhyay stated the Congress isn’t doing the proper factor on the proper time and is making an attempt to be the ‘big boss’ of opposition events.

“The Congress is not giving regional parties due respect. If Rahul Gandhi is portrayed as the face of the Opposition alliance, it will benefit the BJP. We are not talking about a third front right now but the TMC will discharge its responsibilities as the largest opposition party in India. We are in a position to oppose the BJP with other regional parties in the coming days,” he stated.

The senior TMC chief stated the Congress already joined arms with the CPI(M) in Bengal and within the coming days it would observe the identical path because the BJP.

The West Bengal CM made it clear after her get together’s defeat in Murshidabad’s Sagardighi by-election that the TMC is not going to be a part of the anti-BJP alliance with the Congress saying, “We can fight against the BJP alone.”

Both Yadav and Mamata have maintained their distance from the concept of a Congress-led alliance towards the BJP and at completely different factors of time, they’ve floated the concept of a non-BJP, non-Congress platform with leaders equivalent to Telangana chief minister Okay Chandrasekhar Rao and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal.

On a number of events, Mamata and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, who’s the TMC’s nationwide common secretary, alleged that Congress MLAs had joined the BJP after profitable elections and the grand outdated get together has no proper to steer the opposition alliance towards the BJP.