Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday launched its campaign for 2022 Goa assembly election. TMC delegation including Babul Supriyo, Sougata Roy and Mahua Moitra, who were in Goa for the campaign, met the family members of 19-year-old Siddhi Naik, who was found dead earlier, to extend support on behalf of the party.
With Prashant Kishor’s I-PAC carrying out surveys for the TMC and roping in senior leaders, and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien leading the fight from Goa, the party expects to throw up a serious challenge.
Buffeted by two conflicting targets forging Opposition unity to take on the ruling BJP and save its own ship Congress is increasingly finding itself as a target of regional parties, some of whom are keen to take the lead Opposition role ahead of 2024 general elections.
Writing in the TMC mouthpiece Jago Bangla, Mamata Banerjee has argued that the Congress must accept the reality that it failed to defeat the BJP in two consecutive Lok Sabha elections.