- February 2, 2024
Mamata Banerjee’s TMC to Fight Lok Sabha Elections Alone, Talks for Seat-Sharing On – Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi | India News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: Days after West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that TMC would fight the Lok Sabha elections alone, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that talks for a possible seat-sharing deal are still under way and the issues between the two parties would be “resolved” soon.
Interacting with Congress workers in West Bengal on Thursday, Rahul said that the alliance between the two parties has not ended.
“Even Mamata-ji is saying that she is in the alliance. Seat negotiations are on from both ends. It will be resolved,” he said, when asked why Congress is giving importance to TMC when Mamata is unwilling to accept the grand old party’s seat share demands.
On Thursday, Mamata said that she was keen on a seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress but it joined hands with the CPM to assist the BJP in the elections, forcing her to go it alone in the Lok Sabha polls.
She added that the TMC will work with other regional parties after the elections.
BJP won 18 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal out of 42 in the 2019 general election, while the Congress emerged victorious in two.
The Congress, CPM-led Left Front and the TMC are constituents of the opposition INDIA bloc, but TMC and CPM have expressed strong reservations about having any truck with each other in West Bengal.
(With inputs from PTI)
Interacting with Congress workers in West Bengal on Thursday, Rahul said that the alliance between the two parties has not ended.
“Even Mamata-ji is saying that she is in the alliance. Seat negotiations are on from both ends. It will be resolved,” he said, when asked why Congress is giving importance to TMC when Mamata is unwilling to accept the grand old party’s seat share demands.
On Thursday, Mamata said that she was keen on a seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress but it joined hands with the CPM to assist the BJP in the elections, forcing her to go it alone in the Lok Sabha polls.
She added that the TMC will work with other regional parties after the elections.
BJP won 18 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal out of 42 in the 2019 general election, while the Congress emerged victorious in two.
The Congress, CPM-led Left Front and the TMC are constituents of the opposition INDIA bloc, but TMC and CPM have expressed strong reservations about having any truck with each other in West Bengal.
(With inputs from PTI)
