West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee a day ago approached regional satraps MK Stalin and K Chandrashekhar Rao to take forward the anti-BJP alliance and said that no regional organization is cordial. Concerns with it and that “Congress can go its own way”. Amid signs of growing friendship between herself and her Telangana and Tamil Nadu counterparts Rao and Stalin, Banerjee had approached the two on Sunday to hold meetings of opposition chief ministers.
After his party TMC’s victory in the elections to four municipal corporations in West Bengal, he said on Monday, “The federal structure of the country has been demolished. The Constitution of the country is being demolished. We all have to protect it.” We need to come together.” A setback to the BJP after the humiliation of the saffron party in the 2021 assembly elections. Referring to his telephone calls to Rao and Stalin, he said, “Together we are trying to protect the federal structure. All regional parties should come to an understanding.”
Banerjee, who has stepped up efforts to forge an alliance of opposition parties after parting ways with the Congress over an alliance in Goa, claimed that no regional organization is friendly with the main opposition party. “The Congress can go its own way, we will go our own way,” he said.
Interestingly, the Congress is an alliance partner of the DMK in Tamil Nadu. Following a call from Banerjee, Rao on Sunday said he would soon meet Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and TMC supremo as part of efforts to unite various political parties against the BJP.
“Mamata sister (Mamata Banerjee) called me. We discussed over phone. She invited me to Bengal or she would come to Hyderabad. She told me dosa khilao. I said you are welcome. She can come anytime. We discuss There are too many political leaders across the country,” Rao said, asking whether he was still mulling over the idea of a non-BJP, non-Congress front. Banerjee and Stalin, who share a similar grievance over the actions of their respective states’ governors—Jagdeep Dhankhar and RN Ravi—also spoke on Sunday.
Stalin tweeted after the call, “Dear Didi Mamta Banerjee call me to share her concern and anguish over the constitutional encroachment and open abuse of power by the Governors of non-BJP ruled states.” “He suggested a meeting of opposition chief ministers. I assured him of the DMK’s commitment to maintain the autonomy of the state. The opposition chief ministers’ conference will be out of Delhi soon,” he said.
Banerjee, who visited Uttar Pradesh last week to campaign for the Samajwadi Party (SP), said her TMC has decided to contest the elections in that state in the “larger interest”. She said in a news report, “TMC did not field any candidate in UP because I did not want Akhilesh Yadav (SP chief) to be weak in any seat. In the first phase, I expect Akhilesh’s party to have 37 out of 57 seats.” will win.” Channel. Voting was held for 58 assembly seats in the first phase on Thursday.
The West Bengal Chief Minister also said that she will visit UP again on March 3 to hold a rally in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency, to campaign for the Samajwadi Party. “The country can be saved only when UP (against BJP) is safe. If we want to defeat Narendra Modi in 2024, then big states like UP and Bengal will matter the most,” he said.
Taking a jibe at her UP counterpart Yogi Adityanath, Banerjee claimed, “Women are burnt alive and farmers are killed in that state. The chief minister there is not a ‘yogi’ but a ‘bhogi’. If India If we have to save UP, then UP will have to be saved first.” Banerjee said she had asked the Congress and the Left to come together with other opposition parties against the BJP, but they did not heed. “It is the duty of those who claim themselves to be secular to bring everyone on one platform. I had asked Congress and CPI(M) join hands… If they don’t listen, I can’t do anything.” ,
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