Reported By: Kamalika Sengupta
Edited By: Pathikrit Sen Gupta
Last Updated: March 14, 2023, 01:03 IST
Sources say the problem of ‘central companies threatening opposition events’ may come up. File pic/PTI
Sources say Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal may invite opposition leaders to Delhi in a bid to type a united entrance towards the BJP. However, the Congress might not be a part of these plans
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav is prone to meet West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on March 17 in Kolkata. While SP leaders are calling this a courtesy meeting, it assumes significance with the 2024 common elections approaching nearer.
The former Uttar Pradesh CM will likely be in Kolkata for 2 days to attend occasion conferences, say sources.
Akhilesh Yadav and Mamata Banerjee share a detailed relationship, say sources. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson additionally travelled to UP to marketing campaign for the Samajwadi Party within the 2022 meeting elections finally received by the Bharatiya Janata Party in a landslide. Akhilesh too had earlier supported Mamata in her 2021 re-election bid within the West Bengal polls.
Sources say Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal may invite opposition leaders to Delhi in a bid to type a united entrance towards the BJP. However, the Congress might not be a part of these plans.
The TMC and AAP should not have good relations with the Congress. There was a conflict of phrases between Congress’s Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool’s Abhishek Banerjee across the current Meghalaya elections.
Sources say, whereas the TMC and AAP need to take on the BJP, they don’t want to cede any room to the Congress.
While Mamata Banerjee hasn’t explicitly said that she doesn’t want to work with the Congress, the bitterness between the 2 events has sporadically come to the fore, significantly since Trinamool has “poached” several Congress leaders in its bid to expand its national influence.
However, a TMC leader said, “In 1977 (when the Indira Gandhi-led Congress was defeated by the Janata alliance), where was opposition unity before elections? People are unhappy with the BJP and they will go.”
The Mamata-Akhilesh meeting additional fuels the excitement of non-Congress opposition events planning to take on the BJP individually in their very own bastions.
Sources say the problem of “central companies threatening opposition events” may come up.
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