After Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee allegedly extended “unconditional support” to Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (DP), the river Ganga that flows through both Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal over the past 10 years has clearly changed. A lot of water has flown. The ensuing state elections and, in the process, seemingly buried a decade-old political heartburn.
Speaking to News18 after meeting with Bengal Chief Minister at her Kalighat residence in south Kolkata on Tuesday, SP national vice president and Akhilesh Yadav’s envoy Kiranmoy Nanda confirmed that TMC will not contest a single seat from UP.
Nanda’s statement put an end to speculation whether the TMC would seek the Mirzapur seat from Akhilesh for its leader Laliteshpati Tripathi, the great-grandson of former UP chief minister Kamalapati Tripathi, who along with his father Rajeshpati Tripathi left the Congress and joined the TMC. Have become. October last year.
At the same time, Banerjee’s gesture indicated that she may move on from the political embarrassment faced by Akhilesh’s father Mulayam Singh Yadav in June 2012 over the issue of supporting the candidature of Manmohan Singh or APJ Abdul Kalam as President of India. . That was when the two leaders initially came together for the presidential election against UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee – or, at least, against Banerjee’s claim that the SP chief left Banerjee alone and red-faced. Hue did a juggernaut at the last minute to support Mukherjee. ,
“Mamata Banerjee has not asked for a single seat and has made it clear that she will extend unconditional support to the Samajwadi Party for the upcoming elections,” Nanda said.
“Mamata Banerjee is not just the chief minister of a state or the president of any party. He is the face of anti-BJP politics at the national level. So we wanted her support and she agreed to extend our hand,” said Nanda, who was a cabinet minister in the erstwhile Left Front government in Bengal for nearly three decades.
Nanda told that Banerjee will hold a virtual public meeting with Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow in February, which will be followed by a joint press conference. “We have also decided to hold the second vi8 actual rally and press conference in Banaras after the Lucknow event, but the date is yet to be decided,” the veteran leader said.
According to Nanda, the big message that Banerjee’s gesture sends is that of opposition unity. “We are in this together. We supported Mamata Banerjee in her fight against the BJP in Bengal and she is now doing the same for us.
The senior leader, however, refrained from giving a direct answer as to whether the Samajwadi Party would like to see Banerjee as a potential prime ministerial face for the opposition camp in the 2024 general elections. “Let the 2022 state elections be over. Then we will see,” Nanda told News18.
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