Mamata Banerjee asserts ‘Trinamool part of INDIA bloc’. Congress has trust concerns
Clarifying a misunderstanding over her earlier statement, Mamata Banerjee said that the Trinamool Congress was part of the INDIA bloc in Delhi.
HmmWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday reiterated that her party is still a member of the Opposition’s INDIA bloc. Her statement follows a day after she mentioned that her party would support the INDIA bloc from the outside to form the government at the Centre. However, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alleged that Mamata Banerjee “abandoned the alliance and fled.”
Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that the Trinamool Congress was part of INDIA bloc in Delhi, but clarified that there is no coalition between the Congress, CPM, and her party in Bengal.
“Attempts by the Congress and CPI(M), financed by BJP funds, to fragment votes should be opposed. Do not vote for them here. I’ve made it clear that there’s no coalition in Bengal, but we are united in Delhi. We will remain so,” Mamata Banerjee said during an election rally in Haldia.
“I established the INDIA alliance and will continue to support it. There should be no confusion about that,” she added.
However, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury expressed his distrust of the Trinamool Congress chief, saying that she has already abandoned the alliance.
“I don’t trust her. She deserted the alliance and fled. She might also align with the BJP… They were talking about dismantling the Congress party and that Congress would not secure more than 40 seats but now she is saying that it means that the Congress party and the alliance are coming to power,” Chowdhury said.
#WATCH | West Bengal: On CM Mamata Banerjee's remarks "will support INDIA bloc from outside to form govt at Centre", Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury says, "I don't trust her. She left the alliance and ran away. She can also go towards the BJP… They were talking about… pic.twitter.com/F3unHSUfD6
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What is ‘outside support’? What did Mamata say?
Despite being one of the main faces of the opposition INDIA bloc, Mamata Banerjee announced before the election that her party will not leave any seat for the Congress and CPM in West Bengal and TMC would contest solo. This was because of a fallout between the Trinamool and the Congress over the seat-sharing. Trinamool was not ready to leave as many seats in West Bengal as the Congress. Though the deal fell through in Bengal, Mamata did not walk out of INDIA bloc.
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