New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee met with Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Wednesday within the ir first interaction since the 2 parties contested as rivals in the Bengal election in April-May. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was also present within the talks that are significant amid opposition moves to hitch forces for a united fight within the 2024 national election.
“Sonia ji invited me for a cup of tea and Rahul ji is additionally there. We discussed Pegasus and therefore the Covid situation within the country. We also discussed the unity of the opposition. it had been a really good meeting, positive meeting. To defeat the BJP, everybody must close . Everyone will need to work together,” Ms Banerjee said after the 45-minute interaction with Sonia Gandhi, with whom she has always had cordial ties.
The Bengal Chief Minister, in Delhi for five days, had met with senior Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Anand Sharma on Tuesday. After the Gandhis, Ms Banerjee also met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Since her Bengal victory, Mamata Banerjee has emerged as a pivotal figure within the opposition’s attempts to consolidate anti-BJP forces before subsequent election .
Ms Banerjee won despite an aggressive campaign by the BJP, which staked all its top leaders and its mighty election machinery on Mission Bengal. The election is now delayed by many within the opposition as a template for taking over the BJP in future polls In Delhi for the primary time after the win, the Chief Minister has lined up meetings with several key opposition leaders.
“Poore desh me khela hoga. it is a continuous process… When general elections come (2024), it’ll be (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi vs country,” she told reporters earlier on Wednesday After the parliament session there’ll be talks, there should be a standard platform to figure together. i’m meeting Sonia Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal. I spoke to Lalu Prasad Yadav yesterday. we’ll be lecture all parties.”
On who could lead on an opposition front, she replied: “I am not a political astrologer, it depends on things Asked to discuss the view – bolstered by a series of listless Congress campaigns – that the grand old party is now a weak link for the opposition, Ms Banerjee said: “I don’t need to interfere within the internal math of any party . But i feel Sonia Gandhi wants opposition unity.”
Ms Banerjee had earlier said she was hospitable an opposition front but any such grouping would be impossible without the Congress Since its failed outing in Bengal, the Congress has sought to demonstrate its goodwill towards the Trinamool.
Congress leaders recently tweeted on the Chief Minister’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee being one among the potential targets of the Pegasus spyware. Trinamool MP Sougata Roy welcomed the tweet as a Congress gesture of unity. “It should strengthen bonds between opposition parties.”
Prashant Kishor, who managed Mamata Banerjee’s successful campaign, recently met all three Gandhis.
