Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad and Mamata Banerjee.
– Photo: Amar Ujala
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A virtual meeting of INDIA, an alliance of anti-BJP parties across the country, is being held on Saturday, January 13. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee refused to attend the virtual meeting. Why? The reply was that amid such a busy schedule, she could not come at short notice. But, the reason is something else. To understand the reason, we will have to look at the lump seen in Delhi. In the Delhi meeting, Mamata Banerjee had declared Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge as the Prime Minister candidate of the opposition alliance. This was the final nail on the relationship between Nitish Kumar and Mamata Banerjee. It started with the first meeting held in Patna on 23rd June and now it is at its peak. It is believed that some responsibility will definitely be announced for Nitish Kumar in the virtual meeting, hence Mamta has already kept a distance. Instead of protesting by staying in the meeting, this path has been adopted.
Mamta is impressed by Lalu, distrusts Nitish
Many parties of the Indi Alliance formed against Prime Minister Narendra Modi do not have confidence in Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is at the forefront in this matter. She was openly not ready to come on June 12 for the first meeting called by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. When the meeting was canceled due to the absence of Congress’s number one leader Rahul Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rashtriya Janata Dal President Lalu Prasad Yadav came forward and started contacting the leaders, then Mamata Banerjee came for the meeting being held on June 23. . She came to Patna to meet RJD President Lalu Yadav, but not CM Nitish. While playing host, Nitish himself went and met him. During the meeting, Mamata also praised Nitish’s convenorship, but it was believed that the Trinamool chief was not ready to propose her name for the responsibility of convenor. This sequence continued in the next two meetings also. When the fourth meeting was held in Delhi, Mamata unexpectedly put forward the name of the Congress President as the PM candidate.