West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely not to attend Opposition bloc—INDIA’s next meeting scheduled on Wednesday.
Banerjee, who said the Congress lost the recent state elections due to a lack of seat-sharing arrangements with other INDIA members, has a pre-scheduled programme in north Bengal.
Mamata Banerjee may not attend the Opposition meet, NDTV reported.
Banerjee’ s TMC s may also skip the meeting, the report said.
The report said TMC is “unware” of any such any such meeting.
Earlier, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge had called for the next meeting of the opposition bloc even as it was handed big defeats by the BJP in three states. The meeting is expected to chalk out plans for 2024 Lok Sabha election.
There was saffron surge in heartland, while Telangana was sole consolation for Congress.
Meanwhile, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee had blamed the Congress losses to its decision to fight the polls on its own which, as per her, led to a "division of votes".
"Congress has won Telangana. They would have won Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Some votes were cut by INDIA parties. This is the truth. We had said suggested a seat-sharing arrangement. They lost because of division of votes," Banerjee said.
The Congress, a day after the drubbing, said it would introspect what happened in the two states it held - Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh - and Madhya Pradesh. Party general secretary organisation KC Venugopal said the party will also look into "complaints" of INDIA bloc partners.
"We will definitely introspect what happened in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, we had hopes of winning these states. Last election in 2018, we swept all three states, how many Parliamentary seats we got from these states? Only three seats. That is why I say every election is different," he said.
