Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has come out in support of Aam Aadmi Party for the coming Assembly elections in Delhi. Her Trinamool Congress will back the AAP party’s national spokespers on Derek O’ Brien has said uploading a video. The TMC will not only support Delhi Chief Minister but all the AAP candidates.
“Vote for Arvind Kejriwal and all AAP candidates... “Vote for Aam Aadmi Party, Vote for the candidate from Rajendra Nagar constituency Raghav Chadha,” O’ Brien tweeted.
While Bengal BJP president pooh-pooed the TMC for throwing its weight behind the AAP, even as he said “Delhi is not Bengal and the TMC is not even known in the national Capital.”
Reacting to his statement TMC leader Partho Chatterjee said “if TMC really has no presence in Delhi then why Dilip Ghosh has to react. He may easily ignore TMC’s appeal... It seems that he is nervous about TMC’s support to AAP because Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has huge fan following in other parts of the country including Delhi.”
Chatterjee would not however say whether Banerjee would personally go down to Delhi for campaigning. Apparently the TMC target of appeal are the sizeable number of Bengali-speaking population in the national capital.
Banerjee and Kejriwal have shared a good relationship over the years, with the Delhi Chief Minister openly backing her in 2019 general elections. He even joined the 19-party meet in Kolkata.
