The BJP is eager on making Rahul Gandhi “a hero,” Mamata Banerjee stated.
Kolkata:
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has attacked Congress’s Rahul Gandhi in very harsh phrases at an inner assembly of the occasion, sources have advised NDTV. If Rahul Gandhi is the face of the Opposition, then “no one will have the ability to goal Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” sources quoted her as saying.
The Chief Minister has advised occasion employees that Mr Gandhi is PM Modi’s “greatest TRP”, sources stated. The BJP, she has apparently alleged, just isn’t letting Parliament operate as they need Rahul Gandhi to “be the chief… The BJP is eager on making Rahul Gandhi a hero,” she had stated.
“It’s the Congress that bows earlier than the BJP. Congress, CPM and BJP are instigating minorities in opposition to the Trinamool,” she advised occasion employees in Murshidabad right now in a digital tackle from Kolkata. The Trinamool has misplaced a minority dominated seat to the Congress in space within the just lately concluded by-election.
Earlier, Trinamool MP and the occasion’s Chief within the Lok Sabha Sudip Bandopadhyay had stated the BJP advantages from Rahul Gandhi being the face of the Opposition.
Over the past a number of years, Ms Banerjee has been on a collision course with the Congress. The Congress is upset that the Trinamool is consuming into its votes in Bengal and the northeast, the place the occasion has contested within the latest meeting elections, however didn’t win any seat.
Within the run-up to the election, Mr Gandhi had attacked the Trinamool, citing the political violence in Bengal and the Saradha rip-off – points over which the BJP frequently targets the occasion. In Bengal, Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Choudhury is the harshest critic of the Trinamool.
However issues have worsened for the reason that Trinamool’s defeat to the Congress in Murshidabad. Each events now routinely accuse one another of being a BJP stooge. Again-channel talks between the 2 events for a united entrance in opposition to the BJP in 2024 have collapsed. Ms Banerjee has declared that she would go it alone within the election. Her occasion has denied any back-channel talks.