The Trinamool Congress and the Samajwadi Party on Friday agreed to kind a front without Congress to fight Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in the upcoming General Election 2024.
SP and TMC will work unitedly to fight in opposition to the BJP nationally, senior SP chief Kiranmoy Nanda stated after a gathering between chiefs of the 2 parties- Mamata Banerjee and Akhilesh Yadav.
Yadav, Nanda who’s an SP nationwide vice-president, and different leaders referred to as on Banerjee at her residence in Kalighat, in Kolkata they usually held an hour-long closed-door assembly.
“It has been decided that the TMC and the SP would work unitedly to fight the BJP. Both the parties would also maintain distance from the Congress,” Nanda informed PTI after the assembly.
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Yadav stated his social gathering would keep equidistance from each the Congress and the BJP in its fight in opposition to the saffron camp. The SP would stand firmly with Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to defeat the BJP, he stated.
“In Bengal, we are with Mamata didi. Right now, our stand is to maintain equidistance from both the BJP and the Congress. Does Congress have any stake in Uttar Pradesh? We will continue our fight against the BJP,” he stated whereas speaking to reporters on the sidelines of his social gathering’s staff’ meet.
He informed reporters that regional events will chart their plan of action in the times to come.
“We share a very cordial relationship with Mamata Banerjee. Naturally, the present political situation of the country was discussed during the meeting,” he stated.
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When requested in regards to the function of the Congress in the opposition front, Yadav stated the grand outdated social gathering has to resolve this on its personal. “Regional parties are competent enough to decide their roles. the Congress has to decide its role. Nobody should take any step which might have any adverse impact (on fighting the BJP),” he stated whereas including there are a number of faces in the opposition camp who can turn out to be the prime minister.
The Trinamool Congress is but to come out with any official assertion on the assembly besides a tweet sharing footage of each the leaders greeting one another.
Yadav had lent his social gathering’s assist to the TMC in the course of the 2021 West Bengal meeting ballot, which was reciprocated by Banerjee when she campaigned for the previous Uttar Pradesh chief minister in the course of the 2022 election in that state.
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Earlier, whereas talking on the staff’ assembly, the SP chief lauded Banerjee for defeating the BJP in the West Bengal Assembly election in 2021. “The Samajwadi Party is ready to make any sacrifice to protect the country’s Constitution. If we can defeat the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP can be defeated across the country. We need to fight to protect the Constitution and secularism in our country,” he stated.
Yadav slammed the BJP-led union authorities for allegedly promoting out the nation’s belongings to overseas powers and personal gamers.
“There is not any accountability. Why public cash of LIC and SBI was given to somebody whose shares are falling day by day,” the previous Uttar Pradesh chief minister stated without naming the Adani Group.
The Centre doesn’t act in opposition to such actions however is immediate in sending CBI and ED to harass leaders of opposition events, he asserted.
Yadav claimed that the saffron camp has provide you with a “BJP vaccine” which makes corrupt leaders immune as soon as they be part of the social gathering.
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Reacting to the criticism that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has been dealing with over his current feedback on overseas soil, Yadav questioned why the BJP is silent on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s current remarks “insulting” B R Ambedkar.
“The BJP is bothered about what a Congress leader has said on foreign soil but is not worried about Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath insulting Babasaheb Ambedkar in his speech,” he stated.
(With PTI enter)
