Congress leaders cry foul over ‘poaching’, urge Kharge to not ally with Trinamool in Bengal

By Express News Service

KOLKATA: Days sooner than opposition occasions are scheduled to fulfill in Patna, the place Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Congress leaders will probably be present, to draw a roadmap to fight the BJP throughout the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, functionaries of the grand outdated get collectively from West Bengal met its nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge and made it clear that they are in opposition to any alliance with the Trinamool Congress throughout the state.

Citing the present defection of lone Congress MLA Bayron Biswas to the Trinamool, Congress leaders from the state accused Bengal’s ruling get collectively of poaching MLAs from completely different occasions. Kharge, reportedly, assured the Congress leaders that no decision about an alliance with the Trinamool in state politics might be taken with out consulting the get collectively’s Bengal chapter.

Congress leaders like Pradip Bhattacharya, a Rajya Sabha MP, former Leader of Opposition Abdul Mannan and West Bengal youth Congress president Azhar Mallick met Kharge at his residence in Delhi. “Raising Biswas’ defection to the TMC, the leaders from Bengal became vocal about TMC’s highhandedness and atrocities against the Congress in the state. They told Kharge that an alliance with Bengal’s ruling party in the state will not be accepted at any cost,” acknowledged a Congress chief.

Kharge reportedly suggested the leaders from Bengal that he was aware of TMC’s actions throughout the state. “He assured that no decision would be taken without discussing the issue with the state leadership,” acknowledged the Congress chief.

Biswas was the Congress’s candidate throughout the Sagardighi Assembly byelection, supported by the Left Front. His victory was an unlimited jolt to the TMC as a result of the constituency is dominated by the minority neighborhood, which is taken into consideration the votebank of the TMC all through the state.

After the victory, every the Left Front and Congress launched that they’d fight in opposition to the TMC and the BJP throughout the state by forming an alliance.

“But Biswas’s defection was a blow to our effort,” admitted a Left Front chief.

West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury acknowledged Nitish Kumar convened the meeting in Patna on June 12 inviting opposition occasions along with the Congress and the TMC. “At the national level, such meetings may take place. But we will continue our fight against the TMC’s misrule in Bengal and there will be no alliance with Bengal’s ruling party,” he acknowledged.

Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held conferences with Nitish and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav at Nabanna, the state secretariat, and talked about an alliance in opposition to the BJP throughout the 2024 regular elections.

KOLKATA: Days sooner than opposition occasions are scheduled to fulfill in Patna, the place Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Congress leaders will probably be present, to draw a roadmap to fight the BJP throughout the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, functionaries of the grand outdated get collectively from West Bengal met its nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge and made it clear that they are in opposition to any alliance with the Trinamool Congress throughout the state.

Citing the present defection of lone Congress MLA Bayron Biswas to the Trinamool, Congress leaders from the state accused Bengal’s ruling get collectively of poaching MLAs from completely different occasions. Kharge, reportedly, assured the Congress leaders that no decision about an alliance with the Trinamool in state politics might be taken with out consulting the get collectively’s Bengal chapter.

Congress leaders like Pradip Bhattacharya, a Rajya Sabha MP, former Leader of Opposition Abdul Mannan and West Bengal youth Congress president Azhar Mallick met Kharge at his residence in Delhi. “Raising Biswas’ defection to the TMC, the leaders from Bengal became vocal about TMC’s highhandedness and atrocities against the Congress in the state. They told Kharge that an alliance with Bengal’s ruling party in the state will not be accepted at any cost,” acknowledged a Congress chief.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Kharge reportedly suggested the leaders from Bengal that he was aware of TMC’s actions throughout the state. “He assured that no decision would be taken without discussing the issue with the state leadership,” acknowledged the Congress chief.

Biswas was the Congress’s candidate throughout the Sagardighi Assembly byelection, supported by the Left Front. His victory was an unlimited jolt to the TMC as a result of the constituency is dominated by the minority neighborhood, which is taken into consideration the votebank of the TMC all through the state.

After the victory, every the Left Front and Congress launched that they’d fight in opposition to the TMC and the BJP throughout the state by forming an alliance.

“But Biswas’s defection was a blow to our effort,” admitted a Left Front chief.

West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury acknowledged Nitish Kumar convened the meeting in Patna on June 12 inviting opposition occasions along with the Congress and the TMC. “At the national level, such meetings may take place. But we will continue our fight against the TMC’s misrule in Bengal and there will be no alliance with Bengal’s ruling party,” he acknowledged.

Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held conferences with Nitish and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav at Nabanna, the state secretariat, and talked about an alliance in opposition to the BJP throughout the 2024 regular elections.