Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his Lok Kalyan Marg residence on her first go to to Delhi after the Trinamool Congress’s landslide victory in West Bengal. Earlier within the day, he met Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Anand Sharma amid a number of indicators of accelerating opposition unity forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Calling it a “courtesy meet”, Banerjee stated she mentioned the Covid disaster with PM Modi and raised the necessity for extra vaccines and medicines in West Bengal.
“I additionally raised the pending situation of adjusting the identify of the state. On this situation, he stated, ‘he’ll see,’ Banerjee was quoted as saying by ANI. After the assembly, the TMC chief additionally stated that PM Modi ought to name an all-party assembly on the Pegasus controversy.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee with Congress chief Kamal Nath. (ANI)
Meanwhile, NCP chief Sharad Pawar stated he’s more likely to meet Banerjee on Wednesday. News company ANI additionally reported that she’s going to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi at her Janpath residence on the identical day. He can also be anticipated to fulfill President Ram Nath Kovind.
This go to can also be occurring at a time when Parliament is in session. Banerjee has stated that she intends to spend a while in Parliament and meet opposition leaders.
Last week, on the Trinamool’s annual Martyrs’ Day celebrations, a slew of opposition leaders got here in his honour, together with Congress’s P Chidambaram and Digvijay Singh, Sharad Pawar, whom Banerjee referred to repeatedly, and NCP’s Supriya Sule, Ram Gopal. Yadav was concerned. Samajwadi Party (SP), Manoj Jha of RJD, Tiruchi Shiva of DMK and Priyanka Chaturvedi from Shiv Sena.
Banerjee meets Congress chief Anand Sharma in Delhi. (ANI)
A senior Trinamool chief stated the conferences with the President and the PM had been formalities, however this time Banerjee’s go to was deliberate conserving in thoughts an even bigger plan of the opposition forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha problem. “I think it is clear to everyone in the opposition that 2024 is a very important election, and a huge challenge. It is also a good sign that the seriousness has come now, when fighting, and falling, and together It is time to come; remove the hassles as they say. With Narendra Modi in his decisive victory, Banerjee will have a bigger role to play,” a frontrunner had stated.
In parliament, opposition events are protesting current allegations by the central authorities of spying by way of the Israeli spy ware Pegasus, which has resulted in a number of adjournments of each homes. TMC MP Shantanu Sen was suspended for tearing down IT minister Ashwini Vaishnav’s denial assertion, with opposition leaders demanding a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the allegations.
Apart from this, the opposition can also be elevating its voice on the protest of the farmers in opposition to the three controversial agricultural legal guidelines.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
