TMC, SP to shun Congress, BJP, talk to ally other regional parties for 2024

 

Both Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and Uttar Pradesh’s backwards’ leader Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi party on Friday said the two parties would stay away from both the Congress and BJP and indicated possible talks with other regional players ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Banerjee met Yadav here at her Kalighat residence for a meeting where the two powerful opposition leaders decided “to fight the BJP together” , even as the Congress, M.K Stalin-led DMK which rules Tamil Nadu, Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and Laloo Prasad’s RJD as well as Leftist parties have come closer to forming a broad opposition front against the BJP.

While Banerjee did not issue any statements, her party’s spokesperson Sudip Bandopadhyay said TMC would hold deliberations with "powerful regional parties" to formulate a strategy to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha election while staying away f...