Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee got here out in help of her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal within the row over the Centre’s current ordinance, saying that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) would again him for the management over the appointments and switch of bureaucrats.
“Regardless of the SC verdict, the Centre introduced an ordinance. We should all unite to oppose this transfer. This can be a good likelihood to defeat the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Social gathering). The TMC will oppose this ordinance, and we’ll go to the Supreme Court docket,” Mamata stated Monday in a press convention on the West Bengal state secretariat.
As Parliament has to ratify the ordinance inside six months, Mamata stated that the vote within the Rajya Sabha on a Invoice to transform it right into a laws might be a “semi-final earlier than the 2024 elections”.
The assembly of the 2 chief ministers was the primary since Mamata and Kejriwal got here face-to-face briefly in April 2022 in New Delhi.
The TMC and Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) had contested the election final yr in Goa, however they ended up splitting the opposition votes. Buoyed by the 2021 mandate in Bengal, the TMC was trying to broaden nationally to turn into the principal challenger of the BJP. When the ballot consequence was out, the BJP emerged victorious for the second consecutive time.
A yr later, the AAP is now a nationwide social gathering courtesy the nice run in Punjab and Gujarat whereas the TMC not enjoys the standing after a string of poor electoral leads to Goa, Tripura and Meghalaya.
“Mamataji is like my elder sister,” stated Kejriwal after assembly the TMC supremo to garner help in opposition to the Centre’s transfer to grab again powers from the AAP authorities.
Prime AAP leaders Bhagwant Mann, Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha and Atishi have been current with Kejriwal.
“The day we got here to energy in Delhi again in 2015, our powers have been snatched away from us by the Centre. Eight years later, we received within the Supreme Court docket and the following day the Centre overturned the decision and introduced in an ordinance. Coming days, individuals ought to take away this smug BJP authorities. The TMC will help us within the Rajya Sabha and if we win this struggle then it will likely be a fantastic transfer forward of 2024,” he added.
Kejriwal is reaching out to the opposition ranks for help in its direct struggle in opposition to the Modi authorities within the struggle in opposition to the ‘companies’ ordinance. This week, Kejriwal can even meet Sharad Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP) and Uddhav Thackeray of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav faction) to hunt their help as effectively.
When requested concerning the Congress’ help, each Kejriwal and Mamata didn’t appear keen to reply within the press briefing the place just one query was allowed from the media as a consequence of paucity of time.
Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alleged that each events gang up in opposition to the Congress.
“We’ll oppose something that’s in opposition to the Structure. Not as a result of it’s Kejriwal or Mamata, it’s the Structure. The Congress doesn’t take up points solely conserving the vote share in thoughts just like the AAP and the TMC. The AAP joined palms with the BJP in Punjab to wipe out the Congress. Mamata and her brother Kejriwal do the identical factor, they don’t struggle in opposition to the BJP,” the Congress MP stated.
BJP nationwide vice-president Dilip Ghosh, in the meantime, mocked Mamata claiming that she was “scared”.
“Mamata Banerjee tried the same gimmick in 2019 the place she invited opposition leaders and fed them fish and rice, however see how that didn’t uproot Narendra Modi. She is scared and doesn’t need to struggle as her seat tally was decreased in 2019. Now each week, one opposition chief is coming and making an attempt to persuade her to struggle in opposition to Modi as a result of nobody else has the heart,” Ghosh stated.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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