Mamata Banerjee blames ‘rigid’ AAP, Congress for BJP’s Delhi & Haryana wins | India Information

KOLKATA: Congress’s inflexibility in Delhi and AAP‘s intransigence in Haryana led to BJP victories in meeting elections there, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee mentioned on Monday whereas declaring that Trinamool Congress wasn’t banking on anybody’s assist to return to govt within the state by a two-thirds majority subsequent 12 months.
“We can’t want anyone’s assist. However everybody within the social gathering should work collectively,” she informed TMC legislators at a closed-door assembly within the meeting constructing earlier than the beginning of the finances session. The Mamata govt is scheduled to desk the final finances of its present time period subsequent Wednesday.
Trinamool MLAs quoted the CM as saying that BJP edged out AAP in Delhi “by a mere 4% vote hole” solely due to Congress’s refusal to aspect with the social gathering in govt. “The result would have been totally different had Congress solid an alliance with AAP,” she mentioned.
Mamata additionally faulted the AAP brass for nixing a pre-election understanding with Congress in Haryana final 12 months. “In Haryana, too, AAP and Congress break up votes to make it simple for BJP to retain workplace.”
TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh added, “The Congress-Left Entrance alliance in 2021 couldn’t cease the Trinamool juggernaut,” he mentioned, mentioning that INDIA bloc was set as much as put up a united resistance to BJP within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
“The subsequent Lok Sabha elections are 5 years away. BJP would not want to fret about INDIA bloc.”
In the meantime, an editorial in Sena (UBT) mouthpiece Saamna questioned the necessity for opposition unity if constituents proceed to combat one another.
“In Delhi, each AAP and Congress fought to destroy one another, making issues simpler for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah. If this continues, why even kind alliances? Simply combat to your coronary heart’s content material!” the editorial in ‘Saamana’ quipped.
The Marathi every day claimed that failing to study from the Delhi ballot outcomes would solely strengthen, what it termed as, the “autocratic rule” underneath Modi and Shah.