‘TMC Will Be In Alliance, I Made INDIA Bloc’: Mamata Banerjee Clarifies ‘Outside Support’ Remark
Following her statement of extending support from outside to the INDIA alliance, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee clarified that she made the Opposition INDIA bloc and will be part of the alliance if it forms the government at the centre in the 18th Lok Sabha elections.
“A lot of people misunderstood me. We will be in INDIA alliance. I made INDIA alliance,” stated the TMC chief.
Along with promising to repeal the CAA, NRC, and UCC when the ruling BJP government is ousted from power, Banerjee said that the party will support the INDIA bloc from outside to form the central government. “We will extend our support so that in Bengal, our mothers and sisters never face a problem…” she said on Wednesday.
At the same time, Banerjee stated that in the context of West Bengal, the TMC will not be supporting the Congress and CPI(M), accusing both parties of joining hands with the BJP despite being part of the alliance. Expressing distrust, she said, “Do not count on the CPI(M) and the Congress in Bengal. They are not with us, they are with the BJP here,” quoted the Times of India.
Responding to the statements made by the TMC supremo on Wednesday, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury remarked that Banerjee had left the alliance earlier and now could join the BJP.
Referencing an earlier remark by Banerjee where she highlighted the grand old party’s feat of winning only two out of the 42 seats in the 2019 elections, Chowdhury said, “They were talking about destroying the Congress party and that Congress would not get more than 40 seats, but now she is saying that it means that the Congress party and the alliance are coming to power,” quoted ANI.
In the previous elections, while the TMC bagged 22 seats, the BJP won 18.
West Bengal will continue to vote in each of the three remaining phases of the 18th Lok Sabha elections.
