Mamata's remark she would give outside support to INDIA bloc govt means TMC not part of alliance: Yechury

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 16 (ANI): CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said that TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee's statement that she will give outside support to the INDIA bloc if it comes to power means that her party is not part of the alliance.
"After the four phases of elections, it is clear that NDA government will not be formed. Since the chances of the INDIA alliance forming the government have increased, TMC's Mamata Banerjee is saying that she will support from outside. She says that she played a major role in the formation of the INDIA alliance and then says that she will support from outside. This means that she is not part of the INDIA alliance," Yechury told ANI here.
He said that an INDIA bloc government or a government that is secular and believes in democratic values is good for the country and the people.
Alleging that the "BJP is a party full of thieves", Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that she would extend outside support to the INDIA bloc. She said that she would extend her support so that "in Bengal, our mothers and sisters and those who work in the 100 days' job scheme never face a problem".
In Bengal, CPI(M)-led Left and the Congress in Bengal are fighting the 2024 Lok Sabha election in alliance.
Mamata Banerjee said that the TMC is not in alliance with the CPI(M) and the Congress in West Bengal but is in alliance with it at the national level.
Meanwhile, in a scathing and unsparing attack on his Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee and the ruling Trinamool Congress, Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma accused her of leading a government for 'appeasement'.
Campaigning for the BJP's candidate for the Howrah Lok Sabha constituency, Dr Rathin Chakraborty, the Rajasthan CM said on Wednesday, "You are all aware of the state of affairs here. This is a government being run on the basis of appeasement politics. The people of Bengal are fed up with the government for its brazen appeasement of a certain vote bank and rampant corruption. However, they have decided to rise against the misrule this time and vote for change."
Later, taking to his official X handle, CM Bhajan Lal posted, "Kolkata is Modi-fied. Lotus is sure to bloom at every booth. Today, during my visit to West Bengal, I established a positive dialogue with the migrant industrialists of Rajasthan in Kolkata and called upon everyone to form the Modi government again with a historic majority in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2024."
The Congress and the Left Front entered into a seat-sharing pact for the state as part of which the former is contesting 12 seats while setting aside the remaining 30 for the latter. Polling for 18 seats in Bengal was conducted across the first four phases, while the remaining 24 seats will go to polls in the next three phases on May 20, May 25 and June 1. The constituencies polling in the fifth phase include Bangaon, Barrackpur, Howrah, Uluberia, Srerampur, Hooghly and Arambagh. (ANI)