ust as Mamata Banerjee called for an Opposition unity and met NCP leader Sharad Pawar Congress Lok Sabha Leader Adhir Chowdhury on Wednesday lashed out at the Bengal Chief Minister for actually helping the BJP and destroying the Opposition cause by engineering defection in the Congress Party.
“Here she is advocating opposition unity but doing just the opposite …Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s slogan is in favour of a Congress free India … here Mamata Banerjee is also calling for a Congress free opposition … you can easily understand it from the way she has been trying to engineer defection in the Congress and dividing the anti-BJPforces for her own interest,” Chowdhury said, adding this smacked of an clandestine unholy alliance between the Trinamool Congress.
“If the Congress is weakened then how there can be an opposition unity … she is trying to finish the Congress as can be seen from what shedid with the help of Prashant Kishore in Goa and Meghalaya … though such minor blows in a few places will not harm the Congress much … but she has to realize that the Congress is the biggest opposition party without which no anti-BJP forces can stand … and you cannot say that asenior politician like her is doing all this without calculating the consequences … She is for all practical purposes helping the cause of the BJP,” the Bengal Pradesh Congress president said.
Earlier the Left Front too attacked the Chief Minister for furthering the BJP’s agenda in the country.
“The Left has always been of the view that Mamata Banerjee is the biggest friend of the BJP … Her Trinamool Congress was born in the lap of the BJP and they remained an ally for about 10 years … even now the politics of Mamata Banerjee is helping the BJP in Bengal where they were a nonentity in Bengal,” said Sujan Chankrabarty CPI(M) former MP and central committee member.
Describing how “Mamata Banerjee’s minority communalism helped the cause of the BJP’s majority communalism,” another senior Left leadersaid.