Day 2 of Akhilesh’s Bengal Trip with Didi’s Blessings for New Front; Patnaik’s ‘Conch’ Awaited | The Plan

The two-day nationwide govt assembly of the Samajwadi Party began in Kolkata on Saturday, the place the occasion is about to debate its insurance policies and techniques for meeting elections within the three Hindi heartland states later this 12 months and Lok Sabha polls subsequent 12 months.

Senior occasion leaders together with nationwide president Akhilesh Yadav, MPs Ram Gopal Yadav, Jaya Bachchan and MLA Shivpal Yadav are within the metropolis for the assembly.

The party’s national executive is being held in Kolkata after a gap of 11 years, after Samajwadi Party founder, the late Mulayam Singh Yadav had flown down to the city to chair the previous meeting in the eastern metropolis in 2012.

“We will discuss the party’s strategies for the upcoming elections later this year in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, and then the Lok Sabha polls in 2024,”  Kiranmoy Nanda, party’s national vice-president had said earlier.

Akhilesh Meets Mamata

Ahead of the national executive today, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav met at the former’s Kalighat residence at 5 pm on Friday for an hour-long closed-door meeting.

While neither leader made any formal comments after the meeting, Akhilesh later tweeted pictures for their meetup saying, “Had a meeting with everyone’s lovable Didi today.”

However, if media reviews are to be believed, Akhilesh Yadav has reportedly expressed solidarity with Trinamool Congress’ over its transfer to forge an Opposition alliance in opposition to BJP with out having Congress within the group. The Samajwadi Party chief reportedly assured Banerjee on this rely throughout their assembly.

‘Congress-Less’ alliance on playing cards?

The assembly is seen as a floor for an opposition alliance forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections to struggle the BJP with out having Congress on board.

TMC’s Statement

Following Mamata and Akhilesh’s assembly, the Trinamool Congress on Friday made it clear that there isn’t a requirement of having any form of coordination with the Congress, contemplating the latter’s political method in West Bengal.

“Congress’s position as an ideal opposition to the BJP will not be questionable. In West Bengal, the Congress is having an understanding with each the CPI-M and the BJP to create issues for Trinamool Congress and the state authorities,” Trinamool’s leader in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandopadhyay told newspersons after a meeting of the party’s top leadership in the city.

“On one hand, the Congress will seek the support of Trinamool Congress at the national level and on the other hand at the state-level in West Bengal, they will oppose us. The two things can’t go side by side,” he mentioned.

He additionally mentioned that exactly that’s the reason the Trinamool is refraining from flooring coordination on the ground of Parliament with Congress.

Asked whether or not the Trinamool Congress is shifting ahead for a third-front method, Bandopadhyay mentioned that though it’s too early to touch upon this chance, makes an attempt shall be made to coordinate with the regional events having substantial power of their respective states.

“Today our Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee shall be having a gathering with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav. This month she shall be going to Odisha and have a gathering with Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. After that the chief minister will go to New Delhi to fulfill the leaders of different regional events,” Bandopadhyay mentioned.

Claiming that Congress is not playing the role of an ideal national opposition party, Bandopadhyay said that it is trying to play the role of “Big Boss” with out respecting the feelings of the regional events.

Samajwadi Party’s Statement

Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party mentioned it would work unitedly with TMC to struggle in opposition to the BJP nationally.

“It has been determined that the TMC and the SP would work unitedly to struggle the BJP. Both the events would additionally preserve distance from the Congress,” senior SP leader Kiranmoy Nanda said after Yadav’s meeting with West Bengal CM.

Meanwhile, Akhilesh Yadav said that his party is following a policy of maintaining distance from both the BJP and the Congress. He told reporters that regional parties will chart their course of action in the days 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 mentioned.

When requested concerning the position of the Congress within the opposition entrance, Yadav mentioned the grand previous occasion has to resolve this by itself.

“Regional events are competent sufficient to resolve their roles. the Congress has to resolve its position. Nobody ought to take any step which could have any opposed influence (on preventing the BJP),” he said while adding there are several faces in the opposition camp who can become the prime minister.

Yadav had lent his party’s support to the TMC during the 2021 West Bengal assembly poll, which was reciprocated by Banerjee when she campaigned for the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister during the 2022 election in that state.

Mamata’s Big Plan

Later, in April, Banerjee is also likely to attend a meeting of opposition leaders in Delhi convened by Aam Admi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal.

Last week, leaders of eight opposition parties, including Banerjee and Akhilesh Yadav, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi complaining that the central agencies like Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate are specially targeting the opposition parties in the country in a biased manner. However, there was no signatory from Congress or the Left parties in that letter.

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