Mamata leaves for Delhi to meet opposition leaders

Ram Navami-Trishul-Kolkata

Ram Navami-Trishul-Kolkata

While Ms Banerjee has no issue in aligning with the Congress, or even the Left, she has indicated that it would be hard for her to work under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi as she is politically more experienced.

NCP leader Praful Patel had met Banerjee earlier this month here and invited her to attend the meet. While KCR called for a non-Congress, non-BJP alliance, sources told ThePrint that Mamata said she wanted the Congress in the opposition alliance. "It is best to work along with everyone", Mamata had said after meeting Rao.

The same day, Mamata backed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu for rebutting BJP president Amit Shah's charge that the Telugu Desam Party's walkout from the NDA was driven by "political considerations".

"I appreciate that Chandrababu Naidu ji has stated the facts".

After Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam talked about the BJP's role in the AIADMK merger, Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress is one of the major non-BJP, non-Congress parties in Opposition. They are doing business in the name of religion and maligning the religion. "This is fake federalism". "It has to be dealt with right away", Mamata added. Mamata will on Tuesday attend a dinner hosted by NCP chief Sharad Pawar where the possibility of working out a united front is expected to be discussed. The party's grip on West Bengal has tightened over the years with the Trinamool Congress' tally going up from 42 MLAs in 2006 to 196 in 2011 and 213 in the Assembly election in 2016. "I have worked as an MP for seven terms and I know many leaders and MPs of several political parties".

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She is expected to meet Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she had directed the director general of police (DGP) to instruct all the SPs to take strong action in this regard and not to spare anyone, whoever he or she was.

"We have allowed peaceful rallies but not those where people brandish pistols and swords and forcibly enter neighbourhood of other communities and kill people", she added.

The West Bengal CM was the first leader to speak on Bahujan Samaj party (BSP) chief Mayawati's decision to continue the alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP), aimed at containing the BJP, despite the setback in the recent Rajya Sabha election.

Congress sources, however, said that Mr Gandhi might just "walk in" and join the discussions.

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