Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 25 (ANI): Janata Dal Secular (JDS) chief and former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy known as on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on Friday.
Kumaraswamy met Banerjee at her residence in Kolkata’s Kalighat.
“Met Honourable West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkota and held talks. Earlier within the day, she prolonged a heat reception. We mentioned forthcoming Karnataka Meeting elections, the success of Pancha Ratna Yatra and nationwide political developments,” tweeted Kumaraswamy.
The previous Karanataka CM stated the Trinamool supremo mentioned about working along with JDS in nationwide politics.
“West Bengal Chief Minister stated that she’s going to go to Karnataka to marketing campaign for Janata Dal Secular moreover discussing the necessity for each All India Trinamool Congress and JDS to work collectively on the nationwide stage,” he added.
Meeting elections in Karnataka are scheduled within the coming months.
The assembly between the 2 leaders assumed significance amid efforts by leaders of a number of opposition events to forge a united opposition alliance to tackle the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) on the Centre within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Notably, Mamata’s assembly with Kumaraswamy comes a day after the West Bengal CM known as on her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneswar on Thursday.
Through the assembly with Patnaik, Mamata reasserted the necessity to strengthen India’s federal construction and guarantee accountability in any respect ranges of presidency, stated Trinamool Congress.
In the meantime, Opposition leaders condemned Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification as MP.
“It’s not a shock as a result of everybody is aware of how the central authorities is behaving,” Kumaraswamy advised reporters in Kolkata.
Taking to Twitter, Mamata Banerjee stated, “In PM Modi’s New India, Opposition leaders have develop into the prime goal of BJP! Whereas BJP leaders with felony antecedents are inducted into the cupboard, Opposition leaders are disqualified for his or her speeches. As we speak, now we have witnessed a brand new low for our constitutional democracy.”
Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Lok Sabha on Friday, a day after his conviction by a Surat court docket in felony defamation case, triggered an enormous political row with the BJP stating that Congress chief was “a recurring unfastened cannon” and the Congress alleging that he was obtained “intentionally disqualified”.
Opposition leaders slammed the federal government after the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha and the Congress stated it would launch a individuals’s second on the problem.
Whereas Congress leaders together with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and celebration chief Mallikarjun Kharge rallied behind Rahul Gandhi, opposition leaders together with Mamata Banerjee, Okay Chandrashekar Rao, MK Stalin, Hemant Soren, Arvind Kejiwal, Sharad Yadav, Uddhav Thackeray and Akhilesh Yadav attacked the BJP-led authorities.
Congress welcomed the help of opposition leaders and stated the duty of constructing opposition unity ought to be taken up in a scientific method. It expressed confidence of authorized reduction within the case. The celebration held a gathering within the night, which was attended by celebration chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Sonia Gandhi, to chalk out subsequent plan of action.
Leaders of Left events, Janata Dal-Secular additionally attacked the federal government. A few of them known as it a “black day” for Indian democracy. Union Info and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur, who held a joint press convention with Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, alleged that Rahul Gandhi considers himself above parliament, authorities, judicial system and nation.
He stated Rahul ought to probe “conspiracy” inside Congress to oust him.
Thakur stated Rahul Gandhi is on bail in seven instances and had rendered an apology up to now.
Attacking the Modi authorities, AAP chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal stated those that need to “destroy the nation” ought to keep within the BJP whereas those that need to “save the nation” from wreck should depart.
“By no means earlier than within the historical past of India was there a PM, who’s only a twelfth cross. He can’t run the nation and lets his ego information his actions. I urge all BJP leaders to contemplate leaving the celebration because the nation is being destroyed underneath the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Those that need the nation destroyed can stick with the BJP whereas those that need to put it aside from wreck should depart,” Kejriwal stated.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief and Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao, stated it was a black day within the historical past of Indian democracy.
Samajwadi Celebration (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, who has stored his distance from Congress after their failed tie-up in 2017 meeting polls, additionally slammed the federal government.
“The political problem doesn’t finish with the hijacking of 1’s membership of Parliament. The most important motion just isn’t the one in Parliament. We’ve to win this combat on the streets. The one who moved court docket claiming defamation ought to stage the same cost at individuals, who betrayed their nation and fled overseas,” Akhilesh Yadav tweeted in Hindi.
DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin known as for an pressing relook on the motion taken towards Rahul Gandhi.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stated the choice to disqualify Rahul was taken in “haste” and is “yet one more episode in BJP’s authoritarian rampage towards Indian democracy”.
“This brazen assault is an insult to our democratic values and might’t be missed. It have to be unequivocally denounced,” Vijayan tweeted.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar stated opposition leaders want to face collectively to defend our democratic establishments.
“Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Parliament is the peak of Narendra Modi’s vanity and dictatorship. This isn’t the time for conflicts between events. All democrats ought to overtly condemn the misdeeds of the BJP authorities to safeguard the democracy and constitutional values of the nation,” he stated. (ANI)
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