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2024 Lok Sabha polls, she has re- a national party, it must secure at who is the chief of Trinamool Con- Sharad Pawar in Mumbai to chalk
cently visited Delhi and Mumbai least 6 per cent votes in a state in the gress, fears losing her national party out a strategy for the 2024 General
where she held a series of meetings general elections. Mamata Banerjee, status. Hence, she met NCP chief elections.”
with top leaders of various political
outfits.
However, she didn’t meet Con-
gress interim chief Sonia Gandhi
during her last visit.
Interestingly, during her Delhi
visit in July this year, Mamata Baner-
jee had met Congress interim Chief
Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
So far from Congress, its leader
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was tak-
ing the lead in vehemently criticizing
the TMC chief as he has an old feud
with her in West Bengal. It may be
noted that Congress and Left parties
fought together in West Bengal As-
sembly polls against the TMC and
the BJP.
But Bharatiya Janata Party
Lok Sabha MP Saumitra Khan on
Thursday slammed West Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s
recent remarks during her Mumbai
visit and said that she is doing polit-
ical gimmicks so that the Trinamool
Congress remains a national party. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani during their meeting, in Kolkata on Thursday. (ANI)
Khan said, “For a party to remain

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