West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) hit again at Congress saying the grand outdated occasion “cannot take them for granted”. Dampening the united opposition likelihood, TMC gave the Opposition protest on the Adani situation a miss on Wednesday. The newest response by the TMC widened the rift between TMC and Congress which is definitely a setback for those that are hoping to kind a united opposition to struggle the mighty BJP.
TMC sources mentioned that the management is upset over the feedback of Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the chief of the Congress in Lok Sabha, on TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
On Wednesday, the TMC didn’t signal a joint opposition letter despatched to the Director of Enforcement Directorate, SK Mishra, urging the probe company to provoke an investigation into the Adani Group over allegations of corrupt practices, together with cash laundering via shell corporations. It additionally didn’t take part within the Opposition march to the ED workplace.
“The Congress cannot take us for granted. On one hand its senior leader is alleging that there is a Mamata-Modi-Adani link, on the other it is expecting us to stand with them. The person who made the remarks is not a nobody, he is the sitting leader of the party in the House,” a senior TMC chief mentioned.
While the TMC didn’t title the Congress chief, Chowdhury had made statements towards Banerjee through the latest byelection in Sagardighi in West Bengal the place the Congress gained, handing out a shock defeat to the ruling occasion.
Another chief mentioned that the TMC is conscious of the pressure that the variations of opinion between the 2 largest opposition events are placing on the Opposition unity and the destructive optics it has created.
“We are in touch with other non-Congress political parties. We have kept other like-minded parties in the loop,” he mentioned.
The occasion has reached out to most opposition events like AAP, CPIM, Shiv Sena and southern events, informing them of the choice to not be a signatory to the letter to the ED and never be a part of the protest march, sources mentioned.
They additionally mentioned that it has additionally conveyed its stand to Congress and the necessity to “restrain” Chowdhury.
The sources mentioned that even inside the Congress, besides for the leaders from West Bengal, these from different elements of the nation are uneasy together with his latest remarks.
“This shows the way the Congress party is looking at Opposition unity. The leader of party in Lok Sabha has made the statement. The Congress has to decide if you are going to be a like-minded party and work with us or not,” a senior TMC chief mentioned.
