New Delhi: In a bid to unite the opposition events forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday met her Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav in Kolkata. After the closed-door assembly of the three leaders, Mamata stated that she desires the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to change into a ‘zero’. Speaking to the media, she stated that she desires to ‘give a message’ that we’re all ‘united’.
“We will go ahead together. We have no personal ego, we want to work together collectively,” Mamata Banerjee stated that the joint press convention with Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief additionally stated that she has made only one request to Nitish Kumar, that an all-party assembly must be convened in Bihar.Â
“I want the BJP to become zero. They have become a big hero with the media’s support and lies,” she added.
At the presser, Nitish described his assembly with Mamata on the state secretariat ‘Nabanna’ as a ‘optimistic’ one.
“It was a very positive discussion… Opposition parties need to sit together and strategise,” he stated.
The JD(U) chief additionally hit out on the BJP and stated that they’re simply doing their very own publicity.
“Those who are ruling now have nothing to do. They are just doing their own publicity. Nothing is being done for the nation’s development,” he stated.
In the previous few months, Mamata Banerjee has had an array of conferences with plenty of non-BJP and non-Congress leaders on the problem of opposition unity towards the saffron celebration within the 2024 General elections.
Earlier final month, she met Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, throughout which the 2 leaders agreed to keep up a distance with Congress and slightly give attention to the unity of the regional forces towards BJP within the 2024 polls.
Soon after assembly Akhilesh, Mamata went to Odisha and met CM Naveen Patnaik.
She then additionally met former Karnataka CM and Janata Dal (Secular) chief HD Kumaraswamy in Kolkata.
Last week, the TMC supremo additionally referred to as up her counterpart in Tamil Nadu MK Stalin, and mentioned the unity of opposition forces towards the position of Governors within the opposition-ruled state within the nation.
In the latest previous, Banerjee, in all her public conferences, pressured that if the opposition will get united earlier than the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, then it’s doable to convey an finish to the BJP-led regime. However, she has all the time prevented the difficult problem of whether or not Congress is part of her blueprint of a united opposition towards the BJP.
Earlier this month, Nitish had additionally met Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi. He had additionally held a gathering with Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, left celebration leaders D Raja and Sitaram Yechury to debate opposition unity.
