Mamata Banerjee’s TMC to go solo in Bengal in big jolt to Congress – India TV

In a serious jolt to the Congress’ hopes in West Bengal forward of the Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool Congress has mentioned that the get together will contest all 42 seats in the state in the upcoming elections, which was additionally introduced by get together chief Mamata Banerjee, and “there is no such thing as a change in this position”. The remarks come amid reviews of the revival of talks between the 2 events to unitedly tackle the BJP in the overall elections due in April-May.

TMC chief Derek O’Brien on Friday (February 23) mentioned that the get together would contest all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, just a few in Assam and one seat in Meghalaya.

O’Brien, TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP, mentioned, “A number of weeks in the past…West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that TMC is combating all of the 42 seats in Bengal. We are additionally in the fray in just a few seats in Assam and the Tura Lok Sabha seat in Meghalaya. There is not any change in this position”.

Discussions underway between TMC-Congress: Sources

Earlier in the day, sources had mentioned that deliberations had been underway between the 2 events, which have had fair proportion of confrontation in latest occasions in the state, and that it could quickly be finalised.

The TMC, which is the ruling get together in West Bengal, has sought two seats in Assam and one in Meghalaya, that are being mentioned, they mentioned.

What had Mamata mentioned earlier?

Mamata Banerjee had introduced on January 24 that her get together would go solo in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. She asserted that the TMC wouldn’t enter into any alliance in the state. 

“I had no discussions with the Congress party. I have always said that in Bengal, we will fight alone. I am not concerned about what will be done in the country but we are a secular party and in Bengal, we will alone defeat BJP. I gave many proposals but they rejected them from the beginning. From then, we have decided to fight the elections in Bengal alone,” she mentioned. 

Mamata’s “40 seats” jibe at Congress

Mamata on February 2 expressed doubts if Congress, whom she supplied to contest on two seats in the state in upcoming Lok Sabha elections, would handle to win “even 40 seats” nationwide if the grand previous get together goes on to battle in 300 seats. Taking a swipe at Congress, Mamata mentioned that she had supplied the get together to battle in two seats in West Bengal as a part of the I.N.D.I.A bloc, nonetheless, it rejected because it needed extra. She mentioned that the talks between TMC and Congress haven’t taken place since then.

“I had requested Congress to battle on 300 seats however they didn’t hear. Now, they’ve come to the state first to trigger flutter amongst Muslim voters. I do not know if they may even win 40 seats in the event that they contest 300 seats. I used to be providing two seats and would have allow them to win. But they needed extra. I mentioned okay, contest on all 42 then. Rejected! There was no dialog with them since,” Mamata had mentioned.

 

 

(With PTI inputs)

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