A senior TMC leader said Banerjee, while addressing party workers over the phone during an internal party meeting in Murshidabad district on Sunday, alleged that the Congress has failed to fight the BJP and has a tacit understanding with the saffron camp in West Bengal.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of trying to make a hero out of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to divert attention from the burning issues by stalling the parliament proceedings over his recent remarks in the UK.
A senior TMC leader said Banerjee, while addressing party workers over the phone during an internal party meeting in Murshidabad district on Sunday, alleged that the Congress has failed to fight the BJP and has a tacit understanding with the saffron camp in West Bengal.
“Our party supremo, while addressing our internal meeting over the phone, said the BJP is deliberately trying to make a hero out of Rahul Gandhi by stalling the Parliament proceedings over his remarks. The BJP is doing this to serve its own interests so that other opposition parties can’t raise issues concerning the people. They want to make Rahul Gandhi a hero of the opposition camp,” TMC Murshidabad district chairman and MP Abu Taher told PTI.
The internal meeting of Murshidabad district was held at the Baharampur party office on Sunday evening.
Banerjee’s comment comes amid the logjam in Parliament over Gandhi’s remarks during his recent trip to the UK, with both houses failing to transact any significant business on the first five days of the budget session’s second half.
The TMC supremo’s verbal attack on Rahul Gandhi also comes just two days after it announced that it would stay away from both the Congress and BJP and indicated possible talks with other regional players ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
The TMC also said that the Congress is not the “big boss” of the opposition.
According to Taher, while referring to Sagardighi by-poll results where the Congress had snatched the seat from the TMC, Banerjee said an “unholy nexus of Congress-CPI(M)-BJP” is at play in the state.