Chennai: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee met her Tamil Nadu counterpart M Okay Stalin at his Chennai residence on Wednesday however described him as her brother and their assembly a courtesy name.
“Stalinji is like my brother and it was a courtesy assembly. Although the programme was not mounted earlier, I’m right here to attend a household perform of Governor L Ganesan. So I got here to Chennai. It’s my responsibility to fulfill Stalinji and have a cup of espresso,” Mamata advised reporters exterior Stalin’s residence.
Apart from Stalin, Banerjee was flanked by MP Kanimozhi, MLA Udhayanidhi Stalin and DMK’s parliamentary social gathering chief T R Baalu. “We stated Namaste & Vanakkam.Two political leaders collectively can speak about issues aside from politics. We are able to discuss growth too. I feel that’s extra vital than politics.”
Their assembly for about 20 minutes comes amidst speak of the opposition events coming collectively forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections to tackle the BJP and Telangana’s Okay Chandrashekar Rao launching his nationwide ambitions with the Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
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Banerjee stated that she and Stalin didn’t talk about the problem with their respective governors both. Ganesan, a senior chief of Tamil Nadu’s BJP, was made governor of Manipur and took extra cost of Bengal in July. He has had variations with Banerjee. Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK authorities too has been dealing with off with its Governor R N Ravi.
Balu on Wednesday wrote to “like minded members of the Parliament” belonging to different political events to signal a memorandum by November 3 addressed to the President to instantly recall Ravi.
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Stalin took to Twitter to share images from their assembly and a chat he had, describing Banerjee as a dynamic persona. “She invited me to go to Kolkata someday sooner or later and I gladly accepted her invitation,” Stalin stated.
He offered her with a e book titled, “Rule of the Commoner: DMK and the Formations of the Political in Tamil Nadu, 1949-1967.”