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While reiterating enactment main Mamata Banerjee’s presumption that the TMC would combat unsocial successful the adjacent year’s Assembly elections successful West Bengal, the party’s nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee connected Thursday hinted astatine keeping the doorway unfastened for discussions.
“In Bengal, we person categorically stated that we are with the INDIA bloc for the larger interest. However, if Congress does not privation to research immoderate mode guardant oregon prosecute successful seat-sharing, we volition contention alone… Didi (Mamata Banerjee) has already made it wide that we volition combat unsocial successful Bengal. This is thing new. We fought unsocial successful 2014, 2016, 2019, and 2024, and won. We volition bash truthful again,” Abhishek, who is considered the Number 2 successful the TMC, said.
On Monday, Mamata had told her MLAs that the Congress was not successful a presumption of spot successful West Bengal to spoil TMC’s chances of winning the adjacent year’s elections successful the state. “Here successful West Bengal, Congress is not a factor. In Delhi, Congress tin spoil the travel of AAP. But present they can’t. We volition combat unsocial successful the coming Assembly predetermination and we volition triumph much than two-thirds seats… Here cipher is simply a origin and can’t instrumentality distant our votes. We volition easy triumph successful 2026,” the TMC main had asserted.
Abhishek besides said that the AAP mislaid successful Delhi arsenic it “failed to antagonistic BJP’s mendacious narratives”.
Speaking astatine a wellness campy successful his Lok Sabha constituency Diamond Harbour, the TMC MP said: “They (AAP) failed to found that the elected authorities of Delhi was not allowed to function… The BJP created the communicative that (AAP main and erstwhile CM) Arvind Kejriwal has done thing successful the past 5 years and was palmy successful establishing it.”
On whether Congress and AAP, some constituents of the INDIA bloc would person formed an confederation successful Delhi, Abhishek said: “This is an interior matter. Whether unsocial oregon successful an alliance, it depends connected nationalist support. A fewer seats mightiness person been affected. The radical of Delhi believed a alteration was necessary.”
Though the TMC, Congress, and the Left parties are portion of the INDIA bloc, Congress and Left fought against the TMC successful past year’s Lok Sabha elections successful Bengal. The TMC won 29 of the full 42 Lok Sabha seats successful West Bengal, portion the Congress won one.
Atri Mitra is simply a Special Correspondent of The Indian Express with much than 20 years of acquisition successful reporting from West Bengal, Bihar and the North-East. He has been covering medication and governmental quality for much than 10 years and has a keen involvement successful governmental improvement successful West Bengal. Atri holds a Master grade successful Economics from Rabindrabharati University and Bachelor's grade from Calcutta University. He is besides an alumnus of St. Xavier's, Kolkata and Ramakrishna Mission Asrama, Narendrapur. He started his vocation with starring vernacular regular the Anandabazar Patrika, and worked determination for much than 15 years. He worked arsenic Bihar analogous for much than 3 years for Anandabazar Patrika. He covered the 2009 Lok Sabha predetermination and 2010 assembly elections. He besides worked with News18-Bangla and covered the Bihar Lok Sabha predetermination successful 2019. ... Read More
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