Mamata Banerjee punches gap in Oppn unity before 2024 polls; says ‘Will fight by myself’ | India News
In a mountainous jolt to “Opposition unity”, Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday declared that her birthday party will contest the 2024 traditional elections “by myself with folks’s toughen”.
“In 2024, we can peer an alliance between Trinamool and the oldsters. We’re going to not traipse with any of different political events. We are able to fight by myself with folks’s toughen. Those who desire to defeat BJP, I believe they are going to vote for us,” CM Mamata Banerjee mentioned.
The TMC supremo’s comment came after the birthday party’s defeat in West Bengal’s Sagardighi by-poll and the Tripura assembly elections. Critically, the joint candidate of Left-Congress– Bayron Biswas won the Sagardighi by-poll by a margin of 22,986 votes and in Tripura, TMC failed to win any seat.
CM Mamata lashed out at Congress and Left over the loss in Sagardighi and accused them of getting an unholy alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration. “We have lost the Sagardighi by-polls, but I sort not blame anyone for the defeat. In democratic elections, there can even moreover be some minus and plus. Nevertheless, there is an ‘unholy alliance’ between the Congress, Left, and BJP, which we strongly condemn,” the Bengal CM mentioned.
‘Right here’s unhappy, but also a lesson for us’: Mamata Banerjee
The TMC chief claimed that the saffron birthday party’s vote fragment became as soon as shifted to the Congress-Left alliance, adding that the Congress and Left events ought to aloof not call themselves “anti-BJP”.
Banerjee mentioned, “I would care for to congratulate Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. He has already mentioned that BJP and CPI(M) are serving to Congress. I would care for to thank him for telling the reality that Congress has carried out a ‘surroundings’ with BJP If there are unholy alliances, how will Congress fight with BJP? How will the Left fight the BJP? If they desire to defeat Mamata Banerjee with the abet of the BJP, then how are they claiming to be anti-BJP?”
“Right here’s unhappy but it shall be a lesson for us that we ought to aloof not bewitch sign to CPI(M) or Congress. The ones that work with BJP, we are able to not ally with them. I sort not blame the oldsters for Trinamool’s loss, I blame the usage of communal playing cards. I blame ‘disfavor politics’, and I blame the ‘unholy alliance’,” she added.
Speaking on going solo for the 2024 elections, she mentioned, “We have carried out that within the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, we can sort it again. There will not be any such thing as a must effort as we can work even tougher now.”
