New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s get together has stated that the Congress can’t take it with no consideration after Trinamool Congress gave the Opposition protest on the Gautam Adani problem a miss on Wednesday. The TMC management is reportedly upset with the feedback made by 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 stated.
While the TMC didn’t title the Congress chief, Chowdhury had made statements in opposition to Banerjee throughout the latest byelection in Sagardighi in West Bengal the place the Congress gained, handing out a shock defeat to the ruling get together.
Another chief stated 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 unfavorable 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 stated.
The get together 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 stated.
They additionally stated that it has additionally conveyed its stand to Congress and the necessity to “restrain” Chowdhury. The sources stated that even throughout the Congress, apart from the leaders from West Bengal, these from different components 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 the 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 stated.
