TMC encroaching on opposition space at national level as Mamata plays a bigger role
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s national ambitions are intriguing and daring. Soon after, he headed the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Brilliant victory in assembly elections Earlier this year – for the third time in a row – they launched an expansion plan, though no coherent strategy is clear. There is actually a personal factor – he was brutally targeted by the BJP during the election. She won over the BJP, yet struggled to develop a polity suitable for her entry into Bengal, but the score did not seem to have been settled. Ms. Banerjee was aware of the emerging conflict between her politics and the BJP at the very beginning. In January 2019, He gathered leaders of 23 opposition parties In a public meeting at Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground, he resolved to defeat the BJP. His victory over the BJP was decisive, but the BJP is waiting to oust him, increasing from three seats in the Assembly to nearly 70 in 2016. The Trinamool leader claims she is trying to take the fight to the enemy, focusing on Tripura and Goa, where the BJP is in power. Tripura has a large Bengali population and the BJP is in panic. In both the states and beyond, the TMC is recruiting disgruntled leaders and free-floaters from other parties.
The party is driven by Ms. Banerjee’s charisma rather than an ideology. The TMC has changed both ways – alternating between the BJP and the Congress in the past. The party-run Bengal government does not shy away from celebrating the birth anniversary of Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee as a proud son of Bengal. Although the edge of his politics is currently anti-BJP for strategic considerations, it is the opposition parties, particularly the Congress, that are paying for his expansion spree. Between 2011 and 2021, the entire rank and file of the Congress shifted to the TMC in West Bengal, and the story is now being repeated in other states. on Wednesday, 12 out of 17 Congress MLAs join TMC in Meghalaya, Sushmita Devi And luizinho faleroCongress defectors are at the heart of TMC’s plans in Tripura and Goa respectively. induction of Ashok Tanwar, a former Congress MP from Haryana and a Dalit, may indicate a comprehensive plan for Hindi states. Dalit politics is at a crossroads in Madhya Pradesh as the BSP faces extinction, and there is a void to fill. Ms Banerjee has been vocal on questions about federalism and the unilateralism of the Center that undermines it. Whether all this is enough to make TMC the pivot of anti-BJP politics at the national level is an open question. At present, the challenge of TMC is less for BJP and more for Congress.
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