The Trinamool Congress is likely to throw its weight behind Samajwadi Party and Akhilesh Yadav in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections, senior SP leader and former Bengal Minister Kiranmoy Nanda who was on Tuesday sent to meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a special emissary of Yadav said.
Nanda said that the Bengal Chief Minister would visit UP on February 8 where she would hold a meeting with the SP chief.
The former Bengal Fisheries Minister — in Buddhadeb Bhattacharya cabinet — and presently the vice-president of SP, said, Banerjee and Yadav would hold a virtual press meeting in Lucknow and Varanasi.
“The TMC … does not want to contest in UP. All seats will be given to Akhilesh Yadav,” Nanda was quoted as saying.
The SP leader also said that “a large section of the political society thinks that Mamata Banerjee is the principal face against the BJP in India,” and hence his party would like to go with her.
According to sources the SP leadership also requested Banerjee to join Yadav in campaign in UP. Whether Banerjee had given words was not known. The TMC however did not demand any seat in the north India State for now, sources said.