Three reasons for alliance not working in Bengal — Adhir, Adhir, Adhir: Trinamool Congress
The Hindu
TMC blames Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for failed alliance with Congress in West Bengal; TMC moves forward without Congress.
A day after Mamata Banerjee severed ties with the Congress and declared that the Trinamool Congress will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls alone, the TMC has heaped the blame entirely on the Congress’s West Bengal president and Lok Sabha leader of the party, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
“Three reasons for the alliance not working in Bengal — Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury,” TMC’s Rajya Sabha leader Derek O’Brien said at a press interaction in Delhi on Thursday.
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With the Congress still holding out a candle for the TMC, banking on a possible middle path, Mr. O’Brien asserted, “We have turned the page.”
The Congress continues to court Ms. Banerjee. Congress general secretary (communication) Jairam Ramesh, speaking at Bagdogra, Siliguri on the first day of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in West Bengal, credited her for the liberal land acquisition law brought by the UPA, which, he said, would not have passed without the TMC’s support.
“I would like to state, with a lot of humility, that we will find a middle path. We are aware that the TMC stands at the very apex of West Bengal’s politics and if we have to defeat the BJP, then the TMC’s presence is essential,” Mr. Ramesh said.
He insisted that the invite had been sent to her. “Our leaders, Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi — all of them want her to come. We want Chief Minister Ms. Banerjee especially to come, even if it is for just 15-20 minutes,” he added.
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