Mamata Banerjee’s “Democracy Will Go On” Comment Before Leaving Delhi

New Delhi/Kolkata:

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee left Delhi immediately after a five-day go to filled with conferences with opposition leaders together with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. On her approach out, Ms Banerjee stated, “I’ll return to the nationwide capital as soon as each two months.”

She referred to as her Delhi go to “profitable” – the primary after her Trinamool Congress retained energy in West Bengal within the meeting election – in what’s being seen as her testing the water earlier than wading deeper into nationwide politics.

“Democracy should go on,” Ms Banerjee stated, information company PTI reported. “The go to was profitable. Met numerous my colleagues for political causes. We met for political function. Democracy should go on. Our slogan is ‘save democracy, save nation’. I’ll come right here each two months,” Ms Banerjee stated earlier than leaving for her nephew and Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s house.

The Chief Minister stated she additionally spoke with Nationalist Congress Get together chief Sharad Pawar on cellphone. “At the moment I talked to Sharad ji additionally. He went to Mumbai. Subsequent time we will likely be assembly additionally,” she stated. “…To avoid wasting democracy everybody should work collectively. The nation is a very powerful factor to work for. If democracy is at menace, the nation is underneath menace. Save democracy and save the nation.”

“There can’t be something higher than opposition unity for a political function. I could not meet each chief that I wished to due to Covid protocols. Nonetheless, the result of the conferences has been good. Allow us to work collectively,” Ms Banerjee stated.

Her conferences have raised hypothesis a couple of potential united opposition earlier than the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Of their first interplay because the Congress and the Trinamool contested as rivals within the Bengal election in April-Could, Ms Banerjee met with Mrs Gandhi on Wednesday in a major signal that the opposition strikes to affix forces for a united combat within the 2024 nationwide election.

Since her Bengal victory, Mamata Banerjee has emerged as a pivotal determine within the opposition’s makes an attempt to consolidate anti-BJP forces forward of the subsequent common election.