KOLKATA: The Winter Session of Parliament will begin on Monday, November 29. The working committee meeting was called on Monday to decide on the issues to be discussed by the Trinamool Congress camp in this session. Top leaders of the party including party leader Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee will be present at the meeting. Leaders from other states who have joined the Trinamool may also be present.
The meeting was held at the Chief Minister’s residence in Kalighat. Meanwhile, it has been learned that the Trinamool MPs will not attend the all-party meeting convened by the Congress tomorrow because of this meeting.
All the 21 members of the Trinamool Congress working committee have been summoned to the meeting tomorrow. It is learned that this meeting will decide the direction of the TMC in politics at the national level. The way, the TMC emerged at the national level after great results in this year’s Assembly elections, the winter session is crucial for the party. The party will be vocal on some issues in the parliament, the meeting will take a call.
Lately, several new faces have appeared in the TMC. Leaders such as former Goa chief minister Lujinho Faleiro to former Assam Congress leader Sushmita Deb have joined TMC.
Last week, former BJP MP Kirti Azad and former JD (U) leader Pawan Burma also joined the party. Among them are Lujinho Faleiro and Sushmita Dev, members of the Rajya Sabha, and Lujinho has become a member of the working committee. It is learned that these new faces will also be seen in the working committee meeting tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the anti-BJP alliance formed in the last session led by the Congress has also started cracking. The Trinamool will not attend the all-party meeting convened by the Congress ahead of the upcoming winter session of Parliament. According to party sources, the Trinamool will not attend any meeting congress called. There is no question of coordination with the Congress in the winter session of Parliament. The Trinamool will not even send a representative to the meeting of opposition leaders called by any Congress MP.
Sources are saying that the Goa leaders of the Trinamool Congress do not want any direct talks with the Congress. Because, a few months later, the assembly are to be held elections in Goa. And there the Congress is fighting against the BJP as well as the TMC. And so the grassroots leaders in Delhi have to avoid any meeting called by the Congress before the winter session of Parliament.