AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday mentioned that his celebration was not invited to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s essential opposition assembly to debate the upcoming presidential elections. Owaisi, nonetheless, mentioned that even when he was invited, he would have skipped the assembly due to Congress’ presence.
“I was not invited. Even if I were invited, I would not have participated. The reason is Congress. The TMC party which speaks ill about us, even if they had invited us, we would not have gone just because they invited the Congress,” Owaisi informed information company ANI.
The West Bengal CM reached Delhi on Tuesday for the massive opposition assembly to be held immediately. On reaching Delhi, Banerjee determined to go to Sharad Pawar on the NCP supremo’s Delhi residence, resulting in hypothesis of Banerjee’s bid to again the 81-year-old chief for the President ballot. However, Pawar has repeatedly dominated himself out of the presidential race, regardless of different political events together with Congress and AAP expressing related pursuits.
In a bid to place up a collective battle towards the Narendra Modi-government, Banerjee has invited a number of leaders to return collectively and attain a consensus on a presidential candidate from the Opposition camp.
Despite variations with the TMC and Congress, the Grand Old Party is prone to ship senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Jairam Ramesh, and Randeep Singh Surjewala to the assembly known as by Banerjee. Earlier, the West Bengal CM had attacked the Congress on a number of events, whereas stressing the necessity to type a non-Congress alliance towards the ruling BJP celebration. Former BJP ally Shiromani Akali Dal, which was additionally invited, is probably going to present the assembly a miss, citing the presence of Congress. Even Ok Chandrashekhar Rao’s celebration TRS can even miss the assembly resulting from Congress. Biju Patnaik’s BJ(D) has additionally chosen to remain out.
Apart from Congress, different events which might be slated to attend the assembly are Sharad Pawar’s NCP, Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD, Farooq Abdullah-led National Conference (NC), Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Hemant Soren-led JMM, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, IUML, PDP, JDS and RLD. The CPI (M) is prone to attend as nicely regardless of being on the opposition entrance in TMC-ruled Bengal.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”