Both the Congress and the Trinamool Congress left no stones unturned to direct accusations at each other, claiming the other had taken help from the BJP. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Congress of being an “unreliable” ally who had compromised with the BJP, bringing the relationship between the two parties to a new low.
There cannot be different policies in different states. We left the Congress as it had cheated us. It had cheated the people of Bengal. During our first government formed in 2011, the Congress left us midway; we did not leave the alliance then,” On Monday, the TMC leader stated.
This comment was followed by a sharp retort from Congress, naturally. West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury charged TMC with taking a contract from the BJP to finish it. From 2009 to 2013, the TMC was a member of the Congress-led UPA-2 government but left after the Manmohan Singh administration chose to allow FDI in the retail sector.
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The TMC chief pondered why Congress allied with the CPI(M) to defeat her party in the past two assembly elections, claiming she had quit the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) owing to rising fuel costs. Banerjee claimed her posters were ripped, and she was given black flags during her recent visit to Goa, where the party will run in the assembly elections next year.
“A Congress politician was also visiting Goa at the same time,” she claimed, without mentioning Rahul Gandhi, “but neither his posters were ripped nor was he shown black flags.” The TMC stated in its newspaper “Jago Bangla” that party chief Mamata Banerjee, not Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, had emerged as the opposition’s face against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
