That wasn’t hard to predict: the TMC may now be an ally of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) nationally, but locally it remains a predatory foe. So, at a closed-door pow-wow in Delhi on December 20, Bengal Congress leaders made it clear to Rahul they had no problems teaming up with the Left—as they had done in the 2016 and 2021 assembly polls—but the TMC was a different kettle of fish. And very thorny. This veto came just a day after TMC chief Mamata Banerjee had suggested, at a Delhi meet of the new Opposition bloc, that Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge be made its prime ministerial face. The state leaders told Rahul that an alliance with the TMC would alienate their core voters—who have allegedly suffered political persecution by the ruling party—and that would only add to BJP votes. They also accused Mamata of trying to destabilise the Congress and, by extension, INDIA, by projecting Kharge, not Rahul, as PM.
It’s rumoured that leaders like Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal and Uddhav Thackeray of the Shiv Sena (UBT) are siding with Mamata—acting as a group within a group-to keep the Congress under pressure and aligned to their objectives, and not get too bossy.
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