New Delhi: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has invited Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee to return to the Congress with her remaining MLAs and MPs.
He said he is ready to accept her leadership in West Bengal and work under her.
He asked the former West Bengal chief minister to bring the TMC lawmakers still with her back into the Congress. “We would urge Mamata Banerjee to join the Congress along with all the leftover MLAs and MPs.
We would accept her leadership in Bengal and work with her,” he said.
Rebel MLAs, MPs take separate routes
West Bengal BJP spokesperson Debjit Sarkar said the TMC had lost the political purpose for which it was formed. He also appealed to the Congress high command to facilitate such a move. “As she has taken shelter in the Congress-led ‘INDIA’ alliance, she should join the party. We have nothing to say. The TMC is a separate party now. If the Congress wants to come with an official proposal, we will discuss the matter in the party. The BJP has also used the Congress-TMC exchange to attack both parties. “The TMC was born out of the Congress to fight the CPI-M. The TMC came to power on that plank.
In Bengal, we would work under you in Congress,” he said. TMC MP Sougata Roy said Chowdhury had expressed his personal view and that the party would consider the proposal if it came formally from the Congress leadership. “He (Chowdhury) has said what he felt. The TMC is very much part of the INDIA alliance,” he said. Now that the TMC itself is out of power, they have no other purpose left,” he said.
