‘Big setback for Congress’: Ex-CM Bommai after Bengal CM announces to go solo in LS polls

NEW DELHI: Hours after Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee announced going solo in West Bengal in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Karnataka BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai said that it will be a “big setback for the Congress”.

Speaking to the media on TMC leader Mamata Banerjee saying “Will fight alone” during Lok Sabha polls in Bengal, Bommai said, “I.N.D.I.A alliance has broken apart. Without leaders like Mamata Banerjee, Nitish Kumar and Akhilesh Kumar, what is the I.N.D.I.A alliance? This is a big setback for Congress”.

#WATCH | On TMC leader Mamata Banerjee saying "Will fight alone" during Lok Sabha polls in Bengal, Karnataka BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai says, "INDIA alliance has broken apart. Without leaders like Mamata Banerjee, Nitish Kumar and Akhilesh Kumar, what is the INDIA alliance? This… pic.twitter.com/ZymnEZ5Cny

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NCP working president Supriya Sule also reacted on the same and denied any internal rift in the alliance and said that all the member parties are in frequent conversation with each other.

Supriya Sule said, “She is our didi and we love and respect her. The alliance (I.N.D.I.A) is united and we will all fight together. There will be no loss to the alliance. The model in every state will be different. There is no infighting in the alliance. We are in frequent conversation”.

After West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerje’s announcement that her Trinamool Congress (TMC) party will fight Lok Sabha polls alone in the state, other parties in the I.N.D.I.A bloc have been trying to alleviate the situation and hoping for a reunification of the TMC with the bloc.

As soon as Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee announced to go solo in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hit out at the I.N.D.I.A bloc. West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar said that the alliance is unnatural and not politically viable as the Congress, Left and the TMC are at loggerheads with one another in the state.

Amid speculations over the TMC’s stance on Lok Sabha elections, Mamata Banerjee announced that the TMC would fight polls alone in Bengal.

“I had no discussions with the Congress party. I have always said that in Bengal, we will fight alone. I am not concerned about what will be done in the country but we are a secular party and in Bengal, we will alone defeat BJP. I am a part of the INDIA alliance. Rahul Gandhi’s Nyay Yatra is passing through our state but we have not been informed about it,” said the TMC leader.

The I.N.D.I.A bloc suffered a huge setback on Wednesday as Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said that her party declared that the Trinamool Congress would fight alone in Bengal. (ANI)