In a significant statement made barely hours before she goes to host one of the biggest mega rallies Bengal has ever seen in the history of free India, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said regional parties would play a crucial role in forming the next Government in Delhi.
With the BJP unlikely to win more than 125 seats in the coming general elections the “federal parties” will play the decisive role in forming the new Government, Banerjee said even as she visited the Brigade Parade Ground to oversee the preparations of January 19 mega rally being hosted by her party Trinamool Congress.
The rally is likely to break all the previous records Banerjee has already gone on record saying even her party colleagues expect an attendance of more than 30 lakh. “So much so that not all people will be able to come at the Brigade Ground and so we have arranged for them giant screens at the other corners of the city,” said a senior party leader.
Banerjee said “the Opposition mega rally will sound the death knell for the BJP which will not get more than 125 seats,” adding the “regional or federal parties will make the decision regarding who will form the Government in New Delhi.”
“BJP will not get more than 125 seats, the Congress will make an estimate of their own tally,” Banerjee said adding the federal parties will be in a decisive position to form the Govt. Insisting that she “would not impose our views on other parties,” Banerjee said “we will listen to what the other leaders say as it is a meeting of the all parties and not our own party.”
Senior leaders like former PM HD Deve Gowda, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, K’taka Chief Minister HDK, his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu, former Arunachal CM Gegong Apang, NC leaders Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, RJD leader Tejaswi Yadav, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, DMK leader Stalin and “even a BSP representative would attend the mega rally,” Banerjee said.