The Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide victory in Gujarat sweeping over the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party has inspired the Trinamool Congress to once again make tall claim of a strong Opposition leadership.
Though the Bengal ruling party would not mince words on AAP, its spokesperson Kunal Ghosh advised the Congress to go for an introspection and examine the causes of its multiple defeats not only in the western States but in other parts of the country as well.
At the same time he said BJP’s clean sweep signalled that only TMC and its supremo Mamata Banerjee was capable of taking head on the saffron outfit on national level the same way she did in the Assembly elections in Bengal in 2021 .
“There is no point dreaming of or claiming the pan-Indian leadership against the BJP or the saffron forces … the Congress’ comprehensive defeat in Gujarat brings a clear message from the people … it is time for the party to go for self-introspection of why they are losing every political ground in the country … why they are being reduced to a nonentity in most of the States,” Ghosh said adding “under such demoralising circumstances it will not be possible for the Congress to lead the opposition nationally or coordinate between them in
Parliament.”
Promptly interpreting Congress’ loss as the Trinamool Congress’ gain nationally, Ghosh said that “the Congress’ poor show in Gujarat shows that only Trinamool Congress and Mamata Banerjee can provide an effective leadership against the BJP nationally … the way she did in the last year’s Assembly elections in Bengal.”
Ghosh would however not speak a word on AAP or its chief Arwind Kejriwal. But when asked about the other aspirants who too were trying to assume national leadership, he said “no one has the same strature as Mamata
Banerjee.”
Meanwhile, in a related development congratulating the saffron leadership for its stupendous victory in Gujarat BJP’s Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar said that the BJP’s conquest of India would never be complete till it humbled Bengal.
“No amount of victory in other parts of the country will satisfy the BJP leadership … our national leaders have already made it clear that until we win Bengal the BJP’s conquest of India will remain unrealised,” Majumdar
said.