West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is prone to maintain a gathering together with her Tamil Nadu counterpart M Okay Stalin to debate methods for the 2024 Lok Sabha ballot throughout her go to to the southern metropolis on November 2, a senior authorities official mentioned on Tuesday.
Banerjee is touring to Chennai on Wednesday as she has been invited by West Bengal Governor La Ganesan to his elder brother’s birthday on November 3.
The Chief Minister, who’s prone to keep an evening in Chennai, could pay a go to to Stalin at his camp workplace on November 2 quickly after reaching there, the official mentioned.
The Trinamool Congress supremo may additionally meet a number of high politicians of Tamil Nadu who’re anticipated to be current at Ganesan’s household perform, the official added.
Mamata Banerjee has prior to now met a number of opposition leaders to attempt forge opposition unity.
She had at a mega rally of her get together in September claimed that she would be part of arms with different opposition and regional leaders to defeat the BJP in 2024.
She had mentioned on the rally held in Kolkata “All opposition events will be part of arms to defeat the BJP. All of us might be on one facet and the BJP on the opposite. The BJP’s conceitedness of 300 seats might be its nemesis. There might be ‘Khela Hobe’ in 2024,” she mentioned.
Opposition get together leaders nonetheless questioned Banerjee’s journey to Chennai on taxpayers’ cash to attend a household programme of a “non permanent’ governor.
La Ganesan had taken up the extra cost of West Bengal on July 18, 2022, moreover Manipur after Jagdeep Dhankhar was nominated the vice-presidential candidate by the NDA. Dhankar’s time period in workplace had been marked by spats with Banerjee. Nevertheless, the chief minister and the brand new Governor have since made efforts to have a cordial relationship.
West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury described Banerjee’s go to as “Nothing however an try to revive her misplaced credentials in Indian politics”.
Chowdhury informed PTI, “I see no purpose why Banerjee goes to Chennai to attend the celebration of one of many members of the family of the governor. I believe this can be a ploy to develop a superb relationship with the Centre in order that West Bengal doesn’t get one other Jagdeep Dhankhar as its governor”.
On the proposed assembly between Banerjee and Stalin, who can be the DMK president, the Congress chief mentioned, ” She had held a number of such conferences with many leaders earlier however these had failed miserably. That is the explanation she deliberate this so-called assembly with Stalin. I see this as her try and attempt to restore her misplaced relevance in Indian politics.” CPI-M chief Sujan Chakraborty too questioned Banerjee’s Chennai journey and known as it an “excuse” to depart Bengal at a time when persons are demonstrating demanding jobs.
“I do not see any logic behind a chief minister visiting the household programme of the governor on taxpayers’ cash. She is definitely escaping the state when job aspirants are holding demonstrations demanding employment,” Chakraborty informed PTI when contacted.
The Faculty Service Fee rip-off, which rocked the state, noticed practically 100 aspirants demanding appointment in faculties blocking a highway within the Salt Lake space, in entrance of the fee’s workplace. They had been later detained right here on Tuesday.
Demonstrators alleged that irregularities within the choice course of denied them job alternatives regardless of passing a written examination.
Former West Bengal Training minister Partha Chatterjee, a former SSC chairman, a former advisor and a former president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Training have been arrested by central companies in reference to the Excessive Court docket-monitored probe into irregularities in instructor appointment.
Senior BJP chief Rahul Sinha mentioned,”She went to Goa, Tripura and Assam and he or she may nothing wherever. The purpose is TMC has no relevance outdoors Bengal. She will be able to roam across the nation, however that won’t yield any outcomes.” Banerjee, he mentioned, should take into consideration her get together’s enterprise in Bengal earlier than holding conferences with Stalin and others.
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