New Delhi: In West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress has made it clear that it’s going to not be part of Rahul Gadhi-led ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, when it enters West Bengal on January 25, a senior get together chief stated on Wednesday. The Padyatra which is at the moment in Assam, is scheduled to enter West Bengal by Bakshirhat in Cooch Behar district on January 25. After a recess of two days –January 26-27, it is going to be traversing Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar, Uttar Dinajpur, and Darjeeling earlier than reaching Bihar on January 29, reported information company PTI.
Nevertheless, Rahul’s Yatra will re-enter West Bengal on January 31 by Malda and journey by way of Murshidabad, each strongholds of the Congress, earlier than leaving the state on February 1.
Notably, a senior TMC chief advised PTI, “We’ve not acquired a proper invitation from the Congress. And even when we obtain it we’re very unlikely to hitch it”.
In keeping with PTI, senior state Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya stated that the get together has despatched invitations to all I.N.D.I.A. bloc companions, now it’s as much as TMC to determine whether or not they may be part of the yatra.
This improvement got here amid the rising animosity between each the events – TMC and Congress – the I.N.D.I.A bloc alliance companions over seat sharing in West Bengal. TMC leaders, together with Banerjee, have maintained that it’s their get together that’s taking over the BJP in West Bengal, reported PTI.
Earlier, CM Banerjee is alleged to have criticised the Congress at an inner get together assembly, for inflicting delays in seat-sharing discussions in West Bengal throughout the I.N.D.I.A bloc, citing unjustified calls for for 10-12 seats when the TMC is prepared to share solely two.
Nevertheless, the provide from TMC of two seats based mostly on Congress’s 2019 Lok Sabha election efficiency was deemed inadequate by the grand previous get together, escalating the stress between them.
Within the 2019 elections, TMC secured 22 seats, Congress gained two, and the BJP secured 18 seats within the state. The TMC had allied with the Congress within the 2001 meeting polls, 2009 Lok Sabha elections, and the 2011 meeting polls. The alliance ousted the CPI(M)-led Left Entrance authorities of 34 years within the 2011 polls.