New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee met with Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi right now of their first assembly because the two events had been contested as rivals within the Bengal election in April-Could.
The assembly is important amid opposition strikes to affix forces for a united battle within the 2024 nationwide election.
“It was an excellent assembly, constructive assembly. To defeat the BJP, all people wants to come back collectively. Everybody must work collectively,” Ms Banerjee mentioned after the 45-minute interplay with Sonia Gandhi, with whom she has all the time had cordial ties.
The Bengal Chief Minister, in Delhi for 5 days, had met with senior Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Anand Sharma yesterday.
Since her Bengal victory, Mamata Banerjee has emerged as a pivotal determine within the opposition’s makes an attempt to unite to tackle the BJP within the subsequent common election.
Ms Banerjee gained regardless of an aggressive marketing campaign by the BJP, which invested all its prime leaders and its mighty election equipment in Bengal. The election has been held up as a template for taking over the BJP in future elections.
In Delhi for the primary time after the win, the Chief Minister has lined up conferences with a number of key opposition leaders.
“Poore desh me khela hoga. It is a steady course of…When common elections come (2024), it will likely be (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi vs nation,” she informed reporters earlier right now.
“After the parliament session there shall be talks, there needs to be a standard platform to work collectively. I’m assembly Sonia Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal. I spoke to Lalu Prasad Yadav yesterday. We shall be speaking to all events.”
On who may lead any opposition entrance, she replied: “I’m not a political astrologer, it depends upon the scenario.”
Requested to touch upon the view – bolstered by a sequence of listless Congress campaigns – that the grand outdated social gathering is now a weak hyperlink for the opposition, Ms Banerjee mentioned: “I do not need to intervene within the inner math of any political social gathering. However I believe Sonia Gandhi desires opposition unity.”
Ms Banerjee had earlier mentioned she was open to an opposition entrance however any such grouping can be not possible with out the Congress.
After its failed outing in Bengal, the Congress has sought to display its goodwill in direction of the Trinamool.
Congress leaders lately tweeted on the Chief Minister’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee being one of many potential targets of the Pegasus spyware and adware. Trinamool MP Sougata Roy welcomed the tweet as a Congress gesture of unity. “It ought to strengthen bonds between opposition events.”
Prashant Kishor, who managed Mamata Banerjee’s profitable marketing campaign, lately met all three Gandhis.
