“Will Fight Alone”: Mamata Banerjee Rules Out Any Alliance For 2024

The Trinamool Congress will combat the countrywide election subsequent year “on my own with people`s support”, celebration leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared nowadays, simply punching a forty two-seat hollow withinside the competition alliance for 2024 even earlier than it took off. Accusing the CPM and the Congress of getting a “setting” with the BJP, she said, “If there are unholy alliances, how will Congress combat with BJP? How will Left combat the BJP… How are CPM and Congress claiming to be anti-BJP?” The reference turned into to the through-election in Bengal’s Sardighi, in which the Congress wrested the meeting seat from the ruling Trinamool.

The Congress, Left and the BJP all have performed the “communal card” in Sardighi, Ms Banerjee said. The distinction is that the “BJP has performed it openly, however CPM and the Congress have performed it to a extra extent”. It turned into, she said, a lesson that “we ought to now no longer pay attention to CPM or the Congress… The ones that paintings with BJP, we can not best friend with them”.

“In 2024, we are able to see an alliance among Trinamool and the people. We will now no longer go together with any of the alternative political parties. We will combat on my own with people’s support,” Ms Banerjee introduced in a statement. Back in 2019, the Bengal chief were one of the key interlocutors for an competition alliance. But now no longer best did it fall through, the BJP made enormous inroads in her kingdom, triumphing 18 of the forty two parliamentary seats in a pointy fact check.

Since then, Ms Banerjee has been focussing an increasing number of on Bengal, her participation in any competition display of power dwindling nearly to nil. In 2021, it added her a 3rd time period with a sweeping victory, and an improved urge to unfold her wings past the kingdom. But now no longer a lot of her ventures outdoor the kingdom have added effective results. The Trinamool did not open account in Goa and once more nowadays in Tripura. The celebration, though, gained 5 seats in Meghalaya.

Since 2021, Ms Banerjee has been visible through many as having Prime Ministerial aspirations – at the side of her Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Telangana’s K Chandrasekhar Rao. But nowadays, the Chief Minister focussed best on her anti-BJP credentials – and neighborhood fighters CPM and the Congress.

“Those who need to defeat BJP, I trust they may vote for us… Trinamool Congress is sufficient to combat those 3 forces together. We have performed that during 2021 Bengal meeting elections, we are able to do it once more. There isn’t anyt any want to worry,” she said.