The Trinamool Congress has made no mistake in trying to sideline the Congress in the opposition alliance. TMC all-India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee made such a demand while sitting in Goa on Thursday. In the meantime, there is a lot of speculation about one more piece of information. According to sources, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee herself had offered to join hands with the Congress in the new year, forgetting everything old. Mamata gave the proposal to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. According to the source, Sonia did not show much interest in Mamata’s message. However, neither TMC nor Congress has commented on the matter. However, Congress claims that the TMC wants to increase its power by demolishing their houses in the states.
According to the source, Mamata recently sent an SMS to Sonia. The TMC leader also gave a message to move forward in the new year, just as the issue of deteriorating relations between the two parties has come up in the run-up to the 2021 elections. Sources claim that Mamata sent a message to Sonia, target 2024, this is the ideal time to devise a strategy to defeat the BJP. According to the same source, in this message, the Congress president said that the Congress high command is not thinking about this right now. It has also been said that Rahul Gandhi has also indicated that he is reluctant to go with the TMC.
According to the source, the Congress leadership feels that it is not possible at all to join hands with those who want to break up their leaders and increase organisations in different states. The leadership of those states also has objections to this. That picture has been seen in Meghalaya, Tripura, and Goa. On the other hand, the way the TMC has been vocal about the ‘failure’ of Rahul or the Congress in the party mouthpieces or in public meetings, it is not possible to sit in line with the TMC.
On Thursday, Abhishek said in Goa, “We want to fight together to defeat the BJP. Other parties are busy sharing the vote. P. Chidambaram of Congress said the TMC had not made any concrete offer. However, TMC all-India vice-president Pawan Burma went to his house on 24 December at 1.30 pm with a proposal to fight in a Congress-TMC alliance. But there was no response from Chidambaram.” Sitting in Goa on Friday, Pawan made the same demand. He said, “On the 24th, I went to meet Chidambaram. What is the situation in Goa, how can we fight against BJP, and make them lose together? I sat for an hour with a concrete plan.”
On Friday, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh tweeted, “TMC’s policy towards the Congress is clear. There is no dilemma anywhere. The TMC leader herself has asked the Congress president to be the steering committee of the alternative alliance, the basis of the joint program. Repeatedly said. Still saying. But Congress did not respond.”
However, Adhir Chowdhury, president of West Bengal Congress said, “If you had goodwill, why didn’t you talk of a compromise with the Congress before the election. Today, when the situation is reversed, there is no place under the feet of the TMC, when the land under the feet of the TMC is being washed away from Goa in the waters of the Arabian Sea, they feel that the blame for the early defeat is on the shoulders of the Congress.”