West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will also join the proceedings for the soon-to-be Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. She will hold a press conference with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday and will appeal to the people to vote for the SP.
Bengal CM will reach capital Lucknow on Monday evening.
As Akhilesh and Mamata are set to share the stage tomorrow, the development is being viewed from the lens of parties against the Congress, which is seen as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s principal opposition ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Mamata defeated the BJP in the state’s assembly elections last year, and has since attempted to project herself as the face of a united opposition against the national party. However, with the changed stand on various incidents, the party is unclear about its stand with the Congress.
Now, Mamata’s move to extend support to Akhilesh for the UP elections is her attempt at a strong ‘anti-Congress, and BJP’ face ahead of the 2024 challenge.
Even though the TMC has no influence in the Uttar Pradesh elections, their decision to stay in Lucknow and hold a press conference with Akhilesh is a sign of their national ambitions, as the relationship between the two in the politically important state of UP . Represents a bigger national picture.
Banerjee’s gesture of giving ‘unconditional support’ to the SP, while the TMC did not contest from any of the constituencies in UP, indicated that she was facing political embarrassment over the issue at the hands of Akhilesh’s father Mulayam Singh Yadav in June 2012. can move forward. To support the candidature of Manmohan Singh or APJ Abdul Kalam as the President of India.
That was when the two leaders initially came together for the presidential election against UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee – or, at least, against Banerjee’s claim that the SP chief left Banerjee alone and red-faced. He did a juggernaut at the last minute to support Mukherjee. ,
SP national vice president and Akhilesh Yadav’s emissary Kiranmoy Nanda had earlier told News18, “Mamata Banerjee is not just the chief minister of a state or the president of any party. He is the face of anti-BJP politics at the national level. So we wanted her support and she agreed to extend a hand.”
The senior leader, however, refrained from giving a direct answer as to whether the Samajwadi Party would like to see Banerjee as a potential prime ministerial face for the opposition camp in the 2024 general elections. “Let the 2022 state elections be over. Then we will see,” Nanda told News18.
With inputs from Pranshu Mishra
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