Bengaluru: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi shared moments collectively, enquiring about one another’s well being and strategising on opposition unity on the primary day of the Bengaluru summit, sources mentioned on Monday.
The two leaders met one another after a niche of two years. The final time Banerjee met Gandhi was on the latter’s residence in July 2021. While the 2 leaders have all the time had a cordial relationship, sure feedback made by Congress leaders each in Delhi and West Bengal had been believed to have led to some dangerous blood between them.
Banerjee, the sources mentioned was notably upset concerning the remarks made by Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the Congress’s Lok Sabha MP from Behrampore in West Bengal, labelling her as a dictator and the employees of her Trinamool Congress (TMC) as goons.
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The sources mentioned each Banerjee and Gandhi arrived on the venue of the summit at round 6 pm and had been seen chatting with one another for about half an hour earlier than the assembly began.
They mentioned each enquired about one another’s well being — Banerjee is recovering from a knee surgical procedure and Gandhi too has had well being points.
The sources mentioned the 2 leaders sat subsequent to one another through the assembly that lasted for round an hour and a half and mentioned methods by which their events can work collectively and keep united in opposition to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the Centre.
Banerjee, who was purported to skip a dinner after the assembly resulting from her surgical procedure, stayed on for a while after the deliberations however didn’t eat something, the sources mentioned.
TMC nationwide common secretary Abhishek Banerjee and nationwide spokesperson Derek O’Brien attended the dinner after Banerjee left.
The Congress and the TMC will play a serious function within the coming days to cement the opposition unity.
Gandhi had not attended the final opposition assembly held in Patna on June 23.
