‘Will Battle Alone’: Mamata Guidelines Out Alliance With Congress For 2026 Bengal Meeting Polls – News18

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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee introduced TMC will contest the 2026 meeting elections alone.
A supply stated Banerjee knowledgeable the assembly that she would reshuffle the occasion’s items from state-level to the sales space degree, and numerous wings. (PTI file picture)
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stated that the Trinamool Congress would go it alone within the 2026 meeting elections within the state, dismissing any risk of forging a coalition with the Congress or every other occasion, in keeping with TMC sources.
Addressing her occasion’s lawmakers at a gathering forward of the Meeting’s price range session, the TMC supremo additionally expressed confidence about successful the elections subsequent yr with a two-third majority.
“The Congress didn’t assist the AAP in Delhi. In Haryana, the AAP didn’t assist the Congress. So, the BJP has gained in each states. Everybody must be collectively. However the Congress has nothing in Bengal. I’ll battle alone. We alone are sufficient,” a supply quoted Banerjee as telling her occasion’s MLAs.
She asserted that the occasion would kind the federal government within the state for the fourth time in a row after successful greater than two-third of the full seats.
In accordance with a celebration supply, Banerjee stated on the closed-door assembly that like-minded events will need to have an understanding in order that anti-BJP votes usually are not divided.
“In any other case, will probably be tough for the India bloc to cease BJP on the nationwide degree,” she stated.
The TMC chief additionally requested occasion MLAs to be alert because the BJP may attempt to embrace names of foreigners within the voter listing to win the election.
A supply stated Banerjee knowledgeable the assembly that she would reshuffle the occasion’s items from state-level to the sales space degree, and numerous wings.
To pick out new office-bearers, she requested the MLAs to counsel three names for every put up to senior chief Arup Biswas by February 25.
The TMC chief additionally described the arrest of former meals minister Jyotipriyo Mallick within the ration rip-off as “unfair”, claiming that there is no such thing as a proof towards him.
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