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Last Update: May 23, 2023, 7:43 pm IST
BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar said the meeting between the two senior leaders to forge unity was a futile exercise.
As part of a nationwide tour to garner support for his fight against the central ordinance to control appointments and transfers of bureaucrats in Delhi, Kejriwal along with his party’s CM Bhagwant Mann for Punjab met in Kolkata on Tuesday. met Banerjee.
The BJP on Tuesday termed the meeting between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Delhi counterpart and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal in Kolkata as “political tourism” of prime ministerial candidates ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The saffron party also said that the dreams of these “prime ministerial candidates” will remain unfulfilled as the BJP will return to power for the third consecutive term next year under the leadership of Narendra Modi.
While the West Bengal Congress claimed that the AAP and the TMC aimed to weaken the old party, the CPI(M) insisted that the Mamata Banerjee-led party never voted against bills brought by the BJP-led NDA government. Is.
“Political tourism of several prime ministerial candidates from the opposition camp has begun ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. But this political tourism at the cost of public money will not yield any result as there is no vacancy for the post of prime minister in 2024,” said BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh.
BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar said the meeting between the two senior leaders to forge unity was a “futile exercise” as attempts to forge such an alliance in 2014 and 2019 had failed.
“The people of this country will never vote for an unstable and opportunistic alliance in place of a stable government projected by the BJP,” Majumdar said.
Reacting to the AAP-TMC leadership meeting, state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said, “AAP and TMC follow the same policy of trying to weaken the Congress and increase their strength, thus helping the BJP.” Are.
Chowdhary, leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha, claimed that the electoral battle between the two parties in Goa, Gujarat, Mizoram and Tripura only helped the BJP.
CPI(M) central committee member Sujan Chakraborty alleged that the TMC has abstained from voting against the bills brought by the Modi government.
Questioning the TMC supremo’s “credibility” in this regard, Chakraborty said it remains to be seen whether she will stand by what she has been saying about the Kejriwal government in Delhi.
As part of a nationwide tour to garner support for his fight against the central ordinance to control appointments and transfers of bureaucrats in Delhi, Kejriwal along with his party’s CM Bhagwant Mann for Punjab met in Kolkata on Tuesday. met Banerjee.
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