"The CM (Mamata Banerjee) has understood that they aren't enough to fight alone with the BJP... That's why they're all trying to come together..." said Sukanta Majumdar.
Ahead of the meeting of the INDIA bloc, which is scheduled to be held tomorrow, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met with her Delhi counterpart and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Supremo Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi.
In view of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2024, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held a meeting of the Bihar BJP state in the national capital on Monday.
Ahead of the INDIA bloc meeting, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that INDIA bloc's meeting scheduled for tomorrow will be an opportunity to discuss the seat-sharing formula among the Opposition parties, with just months ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
"AAP has been very strongly supporting the INDIA Alliance and is eagerly waiting for an official invitation for the meeting seeing the upcoming Lok Sabha elections," Pathak said.
A meeting of the floor leaders of the INDIA bloc will be held today at 7 p.m. at Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence here in the national capital.
"I was not informed earlier. Only a day before yesterday, Rahul called me up and told me about the meeting...We will be meeting shortly whenever they will decide," Mamata Banerjee said.
MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said that the next meeting of the INDIA bloc can take place between December 16 and 18 and many things including the face of the alliance will be decided at that time.
With the meeting of INDIA block leaders deferred to the third week of December, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Dilip Ghosh on Tuesday took a dig at the grouping of opposition leaders and said people are confused over its decisions
"I don't know, I have no information so I kept a programme in North Bengal...If we had the information, we wouldn't have scheduled those programmes. We would have definitely gone (for the meeting), but we have not received any information," TMC chief said.