Mamata Banerjee meets Congress leaders in Delhi amid Opposition unity talks
On her first go to to Delhi after the TMC’s resounding victory in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday met Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Anand Sharma amid a number of alerts of accelerating Opposition unity forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
CM Banerjee can also be anticipated to satisfy Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind. Earlier within the day, NCP chief Sharad Pawar mentioned he’s prone to meet Banerjee on Wednesday.
The go to comes additionally at a time when Parliament is in session. Banerjee has mentioned that she intends to spend a while in Parliament and meet Opposition leaders.
Banerjee meets Congress chief Anand Sharma in Delhi. (ANI)
Last week, on the Trinamool’s annual Martyrs Day celebration, a bevy of Opposition leaders got here to pay their respects together with P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh of the Congress, Sharad Pawar, who Banerjee talked about repeatedly, and Supriya Sule of the NCP, Ram Gopal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Manoj Jha of the RJD, Tiruchi Siva of the DMK and Priyanka Chaturvedi from the Shiv Sena.
A senior Trinamool chief mentioned that whereas the conferences with the President and PM have been formalities, Banerjee’s go to this time was deliberate with a bigger Opposition plan in thoughts forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha problem. “I think it is clear to everyone in the opposition that 2024 is a very crucial election, and there is a big challenge. It is also a good sign that seriousness has set in now, when there is time to fight, and fall out, and come together; iron out the chinks as they say. With her decisive win of Narendra Modi, Banerjee will have a big role to play,” a frontrunner had mentioned.
In Parliament, Opposition events have been protesting the latest allegations of snooping by the Union Government by the Israeli adware Pegasus, leading to adjournment of each the Houses a number of occasions. While TMC MP Shantanu Sen was suspended for tearing up IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s denial assertion, Opposition leaders are demanding a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the allegations.
Moreover, the Opposition has additionally been elevating its voice over the farmers’ protest towards the three contentious farm legal guidelines.
