Mamata Banerjee has a pre-scheduled programme in north Bengal.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may not attend the next INDIA alliance coordination meeting on Wednesday, sources said. Ms 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.
Her party Trinamool Congress may also skip the meeting, the sources said, as they “were unaware” of any such meeting.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge yesterday called for the next meeting of the opposition bloc even as it suffered major setbacks in three states. The meeting is expected to chalk out plans for next year’s Lok Sabha election.
The BJP swept Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, handing a shattering defeat to the Congress to tighten its stranglehold in the Hindi heartland.
The only proverbial silver lining for the Congress was Telangana where it ousted the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in the state assembly elections – billed by many as a semi-final before next year’s general elections.
