The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has criticized the Congress for sitting on a “high horse” and refusing to awaken its “dwindling strength” in Goa, saying the need of the hour is for the opposition parties to come together and try to defeat the Indian. Is. Janata Party (BJP).
TMC MP and Goa in-charge Mahua Moitra on Thursday said the Congress party leader was not the “Emperor of India”. The TMC would not have needed to field if the party had performed well in Goa, he added.
Ms Moitra’s statements were a direct response to senior Congressman and former Union minister P. Chidambaram’s remarks that the electoral battle in Goa was a direct fight between the Congress and the BJP and the entry of the TMC and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Will only serve to divide the anti-BJP votes.
“Despite winning the mandate” [after the 2017 election]Congress had failed to form the government. This time also Congress alone is not able to defeat BJP. TMC is asking all anti BJP forces to come together to oust BJP in Goa… Today anti BJP forces in Goa are Congress, AAP and TMC. None of them can claim that we are in the fray,” Ms Moitra said.
Mr Chidambaram, who is the party’s senior election observer for Goa, had further said in an interview to a news agency that the Congress was “disappointed” when the TMC “lured” Congress MLAs into its fold.
In response, Ms Moitra said the Congress had no right to speak on defection as she recently called on former BJP minister Michael Lobo and his wife, BJP leader Delilah Lobo, as well as former minister and sitting BJP MLA Carlos Almeida to make his statement. was included in the party. ,
“I would like to remind Congress that all those people who find it impossible to get a platform to fight in Congress are the ones who are coming to TMC… by definition of Congress, even [TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister] Mamata Banerjee and Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy are ‘defectionists’. But these are the people who are the chief ministers and running their states. Now the time has come for the Congress to understand their dwindling power and realize that they are not the emperors of India.
The TMC leader said that the party has included all those Congressmen who wanted a platform to fight against the BJP, which the Congress was unable to provide.
Ms Moitra said the TMC is not harboring “a heightened arrogance” about joining forces with anti-BJP allies.
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