Lok Sabha Elections 2024: No alliance in Bengal, says Mamata Banerjee

The INDIA bloc suffered a huge setback on Wednesday as Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said that her party declared that the Trinamool Congress would fight alone in Bengal for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024 reported news agency ANIWest Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee asserted that she has not spoken to anyone in the Congress on seatsharing in the state for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024Her comments come a day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reportedly said in Assam that seatsharing talks were underway with the Trinamool CongressI had no discussions with the Congress party I have always said that in Bengal we will fight alone I am not concerned about what will be done in the country but we are a secular party and in Bengal we will alone will defeat BJP the TMC supremo said reported ANII gave many proposals but they rejected them from the beginning From then we have decided to fight the elections in Bengal alone said Mamata Banerjee reported ANIThe Bengal Chief Minister also claimed she had not been informed of Rahul Gandhis Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra passing through Bengal contrary to claims by the Congress that they had invited INDIA bloc parties to join the YatraThey did not even bother to inform me that they will be coming to West Bengal as a matter of courtesy even though I am a part of the INDIA bloc So there is no with relation with me as far as Bengal is concerned Mamata Banerjee said reported ANIWe will decide on what to do at the allIndia level We are a secular party We will do whatever we can to defeat the BJP The alliance does not comprise any one party We have said that they should fight in some states and the regional parties should be left to fight alone in the other states They should not interfere she added reported ANIThe breakdown in Trinamool Congress and the Congress came after state unit chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdury continued his attack on the Bengal Chief MinisterIn a news conference on Tuesday Adhir Chowdhury claimed that in the 2011 elections Mamata Banerjee came to power with the mercy of CongressThis time the elections will not be fought at the mercy of Mamata Banerjee The Congress defeated the BJP and TMC in the two seats that Mamata Banerjee is leaving The Congress party knows how to contest the elections Mamta Banerjee is an opportunist she came to power in 2011 with the mercy of Congress the Congress MP said reported ANIRahul Gandhi who is in Assam as part of his Nyay Yatra tried to quell the damage been done by the state unit chiefs repeated attacks by insisting that he had a good relationship with the TMC supremoThe negotiations on seatsharing is underway I dont want to comment here But Mamata Banerjee is very close to me and our party Sometimes our leaders say something their leaders say something and it goes on Its a natural thing Such comments wont matter and these are not things that are going to disrupt things Rahul Gandhi had said on Tuesday reported ANIThe Trinamool Congress reportedly was willing to offer the Congress a maximum of three Lok Sabha seats of the 42 seats in Bengal In the 2019 elections the Congress had won two Lok Sabha seats while the TMC had won 22 seatsWith this announcement of going alone by Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday it appears that the doors are closed for the Congress in Bengal For the INDIA bloc stitching together alliances has proven as stumbling block and it appears that now the alliance may not be able to put together a united front against the BJPWith inputs from ANI