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NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that the prime minister candidate of the opposition alliance – INDIA will be decided after 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
On being asked if the INDIA bloc is late in acting on issues like seat-sharing, the TMC supremo said, “better late than never”.
Mamata Banerjee is in Delhi on a four-day visit, during which she is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, her party’s MPs and attend a meeting of the opposition INDIA bloc.
The fourth meeting of the leaders of INDIA bloc parties will be held on December 19 in New Delhi. Evolving a “core positive agenda”, seat sharing and a programme to hold joint rallies are among the main challenges before the INDIA bloc that will be taken up at its next meeting.
The parties intend to move forward with the unity theme – “Main Nahin, Hum” (We, Not Me) – as a counter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the meeting.
The meeting is being held in the backdrop of the Congress‘ poll debacle in the just concluded assembly elections, where it suffered defeats in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee also said that three-way alliance between TMC, Left and Congress is possible in West Bengal.
“Somebody must bell the cat. I don’t have any problem if they have genuine things. But in West Bengal, they have only two seats. I am open to talk and discuss,” Mamata said.
The West Bengal chief minister further slammed the suspension of opposition MPs from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and said that it all good for the members of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
“It is not that collectively they have to suspend everybody. If they think that the House is supreme why are afraid? If they suspend all the members how will they raise their voice?,” she said.
“They are passing three important bills. There is a system in democracy. Who will raise the voice of the people? The voices of the people have been choked. Let them suspend the House first. They have no morale right to run this House to suspend the opposition fully. They will run a mockery nothing else,” Mamata added.
As many as 33 members from Lok Sabha and 45 from Rajya Sabha were suspended on Monday for disrupting proceedings and causing ruckus in Parliament over last week’s security breach incident.
Of the nearly 80 MPs against whom action was taken, 64 have been suspended for the remainder of the winter session which will conclude on December 22.
Last week too, a total of 14 MPs were suspended — 13 from Lok Sabha and 1 from Rajya Sabha — for raising slogans and disrupting Parliamentary proceedings.
On being asked if the INDIA bloc is late in acting on issues like seat-sharing, the TMC supremo said, “better late than never”.
Mamata Banerjee is in Delhi on a four-day visit, during which she is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, her party’s MPs and attend a meeting of the opposition INDIA bloc.
The fourth meeting of the leaders of INDIA bloc parties will be held on December 19 in New Delhi. Evolving a “core positive agenda”, seat sharing and a programme to hold joint rallies are among the main challenges before the INDIA bloc that will be taken up at its next meeting.
The parties intend to move forward with the unity theme – “Main Nahin, Hum” (We, Not Me) – as a counter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the meeting.
The meeting is being held in the backdrop of the Congress‘ poll debacle in the just concluded assembly elections, where it suffered defeats in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee also said that three-way alliance between TMC, Left and Congress is possible in West Bengal.
“Somebody must bell the cat. I don’t have any problem if they have genuine things. But in West Bengal, they have only two seats. I am open to talk and discuss,” Mamata said.
The West Bengal chief minister further slammed the suspension of opposition MPs from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and said that it all good for the members of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
“It is not that collectively they have to suspend everybody. If they think that the House is supreme why are afraid? If they suspend all the members how will they raise their voice?,” she said.
“They are passing three important bills. There is a system in democracy. Who will raise the voice of the people? The voices of the people have been choked. Let them suspend the House first. They have no morale right to run this House to suspend the opposition fully. They will run a mockery nothing else,” Mamata added.
As many as 33 members from Lok Sabha and 45 from Rajya Sabha were suspended on Monday for disrupting proceedings and causing ruckus in Parliament over last week’s security breach incident.
Of the nearly 80 MPs against whom action was taken, 64 have been suspended for the remainder of the winter session which will conclude on December 22.
Last week too, a total of 14 MPs were suspended — 13 from Lok Sabha and 1 from Rajya Sabha — for raising slogans and disrupting Parliamentary proceedings.
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