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Last Update: March 14, 2023, 01:03 IST
Sources say that the issue of ‘intimidation of opposition parties by central agencies’ may also come up. File Photo/PTI
Sources say that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal may also invite opposition leaders to Delhi to form a united front against the BJP. However, Congress may not be a part of these plans
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav Can meet the Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee In Kolkata on 17 March. While SP leaders are calling it a courtesy meeting, its importance increases in view of the 2024 general elections approaching.
Sources say that the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister will be in Kolkata for two days to attend party meetings.
Sources say that there is a close relationship between Akhilesh Yadav and Mamta Banerjee. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) president also traveled to Uttar Pradesh to campaign for the Samajwadi Party in the 2022 assembly elections, eventually won by the Bharatiya Janata Party in a landslide. Akhilesh had also earlier supported Mamata in her re-election bid in the 2021 West Bengal elections.
Sources say that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal may also invite opposition leaders to Delhi to form a united front against the BJP. However, Congress may not be a part of these plans.
TMC and AAP do not have good relations with Congress. War of words broke out between Congressmen Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool’s Abhishek Banerjee around the recent Meghalaya elections.
Sources say that TMC and AAP want to give a fight to BJP, but they do not want to give any chance to Congress.
While Mamata Banerjee has not explicitly stated that she does not want to work with the Congress, bitterness between the two parties has surfaced sporadically, especially since the Trinamool has “poached many Congress leaders” for its national expansion. hunted”. Effect.
However, a TMC leader said, “In 1977 (when the Janata alliance defeated the Congress led by Indira Gandhi), where was the opposition unity before the elections?” People are unhappy with the BJP and they will leave.
The Mamata-Akhilesh meeting has fueled the buzz of non-Congress opposition parties planning to take on the BJP personally in their respective bastions.
Sources say the issue of “central agencies threatening opposition parties” may also come up.
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