Mamata, Akhilesh agree to maintain ‘equal distance’ from BJP, Congress
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Mamata, Akhilesh agree to maintain ‘equal distance’ from BJP, Congress

Hindustan Times  

West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee met Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Kolkata on Friday and both parties later announced that they will maintain equal distance from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress while continuing to reach out to other outfits, marking the first stirrings of an Opposition effort to forge a common platform ahead of the 2024 general elections. “We will maintain equal distance from the Congress and BJP… Mamata Banerjee will hold dialogues with parties that are capable of defeating BJP in their own states. She will meet Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on March 23 and meet leaders of other parties when she visits Delhi in the last week of March or early-April,” said TMC parliamentarian Sudip Bandyopadhyay. “We don’t know what role the Congress is playing as an opposition party in the rest of India but in Bengal, it is working closely with BJP to put our government in danger.” The development came 48 hours after the TMC and the Nationalist Congress Party skipped a march of Opposition parties led by the Congress to the Enforcement Directorate office in Delhi over the Adani issue.

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