A piece in TMC mouthpiece Jago Bangla read that the Congress was tired and riddled with factionalism. Hence, the TMC has now taken up the spot of the principal Opposition against BJP.
The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) is set to contest next year’s Goa Assembly elections in alliance with the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress.
The TMC has shown a hostile attitude towards the Congress overtures for a joint opposition strategy.The TMC has charted its own course by skipping the opposition meet for the second time in a row although 16 parties attended the meeting. On .
Five new members ook oath on Monday in the Rajya Sabha as the winter session of Parliament begins. Three of the five members are from the DMK and one each is from the Congress and Trinamool Congress. All the newly new MPs took oath in their native languages. Rajni Patil, elected from Maharashtra on a Congress ticket, took oath in Marathi. Luizinho Falerio elected on the
Congress-Trinamool Congress relationship is set to nosedive further with the West Bengal party eyeing political space beyond its traditional base and chipping away some more leaders close to Rahul Gandhi. Ashok Tanwar, who joined the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday is the second erstwhile close aide of Rahul Gandhi after Sushmita Dev to have hitched his bandwagons to Banerjee.