Contrasting visuals from West Bengal appeared on Thursday as Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra entered West Bengal. On one aspect, Gandhi acquired a powerful welcome in Coochbehar; on the opposite aspect, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters held placards holding placards stating in daring, ‘Didi is sufficient for Bengal’.
This got here a day after West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee declared that her occasion will contest alone within the state for the upcoming essential Lok Sabha elections. The TMC employees additionally held placards shifting the blame of the potential divide within the INDIA bloc on West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
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After Assam, the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra made its method into West Bengal. State Congress president Adhir Chowdhury welcomed the Yatra because it crossed into West Bengal by way of Bakshirhat, located within the Cooch Behar district’s northern area.
‘TMC fights for Structure’
Earlier within the day, TMC chief Derek O’Brien held Chowdhury answerable for the deadlock between the occasion and Congress. He additionally mentioned that whereas the INDIA bloc had a number of detractors, solely two – the Bharatiya Janata Celebration and Chowdhury – have repeatedly spoken towards it.
“After the final elections, if the Congress does its job and defeats the BJP on a considerable variety of seats, the Trinamool Congress will very a lot be part of the entrance that believes and fights for the Structure,” O’Brien instructed reporters.