Sources in Trinamul said the preliminary outline of the coming drive was ready and needed to be approved in a meeting with party chief Mamata Banerjee after she returns on September 23 from her Spain-UAE tour
For the TMC and BJP, the elections are a prelude to next year's Lok Sabha polls. The Congress and CPI(M) will have to break out of the rut if they hope to have any influence.
Claiming that the BJP will not come to power at the Centre in 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the TMC supremo said that with that the BJP’s “upper hand” of “misusing” central agencies like the CBI and ED “will be minimised”.
The TMC MP had earlier said that the outreach campaign aims at reaching out to the people and empowering them to decide on party candidates for the ensuing panchayat polls through secret ballots.