Read more about BJP leader Mukul Roy leaves for TMC Bhavan, set to return to Mamata s party on Business Standard. Roy is the BJP national vice president
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In a move that may take her political battle against the BJP into the Hindi heartland, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday promised to rally opposition-ruled states in support of the agitating farmers, and said she aims to remove the Narendra Modi government from power . At a meeting with farmer leaders led by Rakesh Tikait and Yudhvir Singh here during the day, the TMC chief said that there should be a platform where states could converse on policy issues. Bulldozing states is not good for the federal structure, she said. The farmer leaders had come to elicit her support for their agitation against the farm laws passed by the BJP-led central government and in favour of a nationwide law bringing in a guaranteed Minimum Support Price for agricultural crops.
Trinamool Congress leadership is yet to take a call on ghar wapsi (return home) by former TMC leaders who had joined the BJP ahead of the recently concluded assembly elections which the Mamata Banerjee-led party swept. Top TMC sources said Banerjee, who is the party supremo, will take a final call on allowing those TMC men and women who had crossed over to the saffron party, re-entry into party. While analysts predicted that the party would allow a return very selectively to drive home the message to its cadre ahead of general elections in 2024, that rebellions would not be tolerated.
Read more about Alapan Bandyopadhyay chapter is over, says Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Business Standard. Bandyopadhyay has already started working as the chief adviser and was present at Wednesday s meeting of the state Irrigation department presided over by Banerjee.