INDIA Seat Sharing: Amid the ongoing tussle within the opposition alliance ‘India’ in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee said that her party is ready to contest all 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state if it is not given due importance.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her stand during a closed-door organizational meeting of the party’s Murshidabad district unit. Murshidabad is an area with a significant minority population and is traditionally seen as a Congress stronghold.
During the meeting, he stressed the need for TMC’s victory on all three Lok Sabha seats in the district and urged the party leaders to be prepared for the electoral battle. The Congress managed to retain only the Baharampur seat in the 2019 elections, from where its five-time MP and state party president Adhir Ranjan Choudhary stood.
What did TMC say?
A senior TMC leader, requesting anonymity, said, “Our party supremo Mamata Banerjee clearly said that TMC is one of the most important partners of the ‘Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance’ (India), but Bengal If RSP, CPI, CPI(M) are given more importance by excluding us, then we will make our own path. “We should prepare to contest and win all 42 seats.”
The CPI(M)-led Left Front, Congress and TMC are collectively part of the opposition alliance ‘India’. In West Bengal, however, CPI(M) and Congress have formed an alliance against TMC and BJP.
Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary was mentioned
Another TMC leader requesting anonymity said, “The party chief said that we need to prepare to win all three Lok Sabha seats. When one of our MLAs, Humayun Kabir, told that Adhir Ranjan Choudhary is a factor in the minority-dominated district, Banerjee refused to give much importance to this claim and said that if TMC fights unitedly, it will get success.”
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