The Congress-TMC face-off is likely to intensify with the grand old party making up its mind to launch an all-out attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led party after the latter questioned the very existence of the UPA.
Mamata’s “there is no UPA” remark after her meeting in Mumbai with NCP chief Sharad Pawar, an ally of the Congress in Maharashtra, has not gone down well with the Congress.
Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjuna Kharge, said, “Some people are only helping the ruling party at the Centre.
“We have tried to include them in various socio-political issues where the Congress made its name. The Opposition should not get divided and fight amongst themselves,” he said.
The AICC sources said the decision to attack Mamata was taken at a meeting held on Wednesday night. “There were discussions among the top leaders of the Congress late Wednesday night in which it was decided to go all out against Mamata,” said the source.
A day after AICC General Secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal said defeating BJP without Congress was only a dream, Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury termed the meeting between Mamata and Pawar as a “pre-meditated conspiracy” to weaken the grand old party and alleged the TMC chief had become “BJP’s oxygen supplier.”