TMC to keep up equidistance from BJP and Cong, eyes forming group of regional events

By PTI

KOLKATA: Following the below-expectation efficiency of the Trinamool Congress within the Northeast, the get together is altering its political technique by getting ready to keep up equidistance from the BJP and the Congress and looking for to kind a gaggle of regional outfits against each camps.

In Tripura, the TMC bagged lower than the votes polled by NOTA, whereas in Meghalaya, the get together’s tally got here down to 5 from 11.

The Mamata Banerjee-led get together additionally suffered a serious upset in West Bengal’s Sagardighi, a minority-dominated meeting constituency which was beforehand held by the Mamata Banerjee-led get together.

“Our strategy nationally will be maintaining equidistance from both the BJP and the Congress. We want other opposition parties who want to fight the BJP but are opposed to the Congress to come together and work as a united opposition front. We are already in talks with parties such as BRS (erstwhile TRS), AAP and others. This strategy will be reflected in the next Parliament session,” Leader of the TMC parliamentary get together in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandopadhyay informed PTI.

Banerjee had additionally not too long ago introduced that the get together would go it alone within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The resolution additionally got here after Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in addition to CPI(M) leaders accused the TMC of serving to the BJP by dividing opposition votes.

Veteran TMC chief and MP Sougata Roy mentioned that because the Lok Sabha elections are nonetheless a 12 months away, the state of affairs will additional evolve within the days to come back.

“Let’s see how things shape up, as four major states will go to polls this year. The political situation will further evolve by the end of this year,” Roy mentioned.

Assembly elections will likely be held in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka this 12 months.

Referring to the latest letter written by leaders of 9 opposition events – minus the Congress, Left events, JD(U), DMK and JD(S) – to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on “blatant misuse” of central businesses, Roy informed PTI that it’s “just the beginning.”

Attacking the grand previous get together for its “big brother attitude”, TMC chief spokesperson Sukhendu Sekhar Roy mentioned, “The Congress is yet to come to terms with the changing reality of Indian politics. It has miserably failed in the last nine years in fighting the BJP. So we will try to align with strong forces in their respective states,” he mentioned.

The TMC had additionally abstained from voting within the Vice-Presidential polls final 12 months.

Leader of the Congress get together in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury nevertheless dubbed the TMC’s effort to convey collectively opposition events minus the Congress as an “attempt to help the BJP,”

“You don’t need to be a political pundit to understand the role some opposition parties like the TMC are playing to help the BJP. The TMC is now isolated nationally as it stands unmasked as a stooge of the BJP,” he mentioned.

CPI (M) state secretary Mohammed Salim claimed the TMC lacks credibility within the struggle towards the BJP.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Maidul Islam mentioned the concept of bringing collectively regional events is an thought which was as soon as mulled by Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu within the title of the Third Front within the eighties and nineties and later pushed by Banerjee in with the title of Federal Front in 2014.

Political scientist Biswanath Chakraborty mentioned any try and forge an opposition unity sans the Congress is destined to fail. “If you go by numbers, you cannot have any opposition front minus the Congress if you are serious about fighting the BJP. If you try to forge any such front, it will only help the BJP,” he mentioned.

KOLKATA: Following the below-expectation efficiency of the Trinamool Congress within the Northeast, the get together is altering its political technique by getting ready to keep up equidistance from the BJP and the Congress and looking for to kind a gaggle of regional outfits against each camps.

In Tripura, the TMC bagged lower than the votes polled by NOTA, whereas in Meghalaya, the get together’s tally got here down to 5 from 11.

The Mamata Banerjee-led get together additionally suffered a serious upset in West Bengal’s Sagardighi, a minority-dominated meeting constituency which was beforehand held by the Mamata Banerjee-led get together.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“Our strategy nationally will be maintaining equidistance from both the BJP and the Congress. We want other opposition parties who want to fight the BJP but are opposed to the Congress to come together and work as a united opposition front. We are already in talks with parties such as BRS (erstwhile TRS), AAP and others. This strategy will be reflected in the next Parliament session,” Leader of the TMC parliamentary get together in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandopadhyay informed PTI.

Banerjee had additionally not too long ago introduced that the get together would go it alone within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The resolution additionally got here after Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in addition to CPI(M) leaders accused the TMC of serving to the BJP by dividing opposition votes.

Veteran TMC chief and MP Sougata Roy mentioned that because the Lok Sabha elections are nonetheless a 12 months away, the state of affairs will additional evolve within the days to come back.

“Let’s see how things shape up, as four major states will go to polls this year. The political situation will further evolve by the end of this year,” Roy mentioned.

Assembly elections will likely be held in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka this 12 months.

Referring to the latest letter written by leaders of 9 opposition events – minus the Congress, Left events, JD(U), DMK and JD(S) – to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on “blatant misuse” of central businesses, Roy informed PTI that it’s “just the beginning.”

Attacking the grand previous get together for its “big brother attitude”, TMC chief spokesperson Sukhendu Sekhar Roy mentioned, “The Congress is yet to come to terms with the changing reality of Indian politics. It has miserably failed in the last nine years in fighting the BJP. So we will try to align with strong forces in their respective states,” he mentioned.

The TMC had additionally abstained from voting within the Vice-Presidential polls final 12 months.

Leader of the Congress get together in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury nevertheless dubbed the TMC’s effort to convey collectively opposition events minus the Congress as an “attempt to help the BJP,”

“You don’t need to be a political pundit to understand the role some opposition parties like the TMC are playing to help the BJP. The TMC is now isolated nationally as it stands unmasked as a stooge of the BJP,” he mentioned.

CPI (M) state secretary Mohammed Salim claimed the TMC lacks credibility within the struggle towards the BJP.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Maidul Islam mentioned the concept of bringing collectively regional events is an thought which was as soon as mulled by Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu within the title of the Third Front within the eighties and nineties and later pushed by Banerjee in with the title of Federal Front in 2014.

Political scientist Biswanath Chakraborty mentioned any try and forge an opposition unity sans the Congress is destined to fail. “If you go by numbers, you cannot have any opposition front minus the Congress if you are serious about fighting the BJP. If you try to forge any such front, it will only help the BJP,” he mentioned.