Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is part of the newly announced Grand Alliance India to take on the ruling BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, has said she is not interested in becoming the prime minister, but only wants a saffron party. . Go. The Trinamool Congress supremo made the remarks while addressing a gathering at the party’s annual Martyrs’ Day rally. Speaking on the occasion, Mamata said that she had no ambition for any chair, but was ready to fight against the BJP regime only to oust it.
Mamata Banerjee’s statement came after Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar made it clear that they were not interested in the Prime Minister’s seat.
Mamta targeted the Center regarding the situation in Manipur
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Continuing her attack against the Center over the Manipur crisis, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the BJP’s ‘Beti Bachao’ scheme has now turned into ‘Beti Jalao’ (burn our daughters).
The TMC chief wondered why the Center never bothered to send central teams to Manipur, where ethnic strife has claimed over 160 lives so far. “We would like to express our solidarity with Manipur. The BJP had sent so many central teams to Bengal (after the panchayat polls), so why no central team was sent to the northeastern state,” he questioned.
Mamata expressed her solidarity with the newly formed opposition coalition India, saying that their mission is to remove the saffron camp from power.
He warned that the return of the BJP government would signal the end of democracy. The TMC boss called for BJP’s ouster from power and refuted claims of personal ambitions, saying, “We have no other demand, nor do we want any chair in 2024 except to oust the BJP from the Centre.”
“I am happy that these 26 opposition parties have come together. We will organize protests against the Center under the banner of the Opposition Alliance – India Alliance will fight and TMC will stand by it like a soldier,” he said.
Banerjee said that if the BJP returns to power at the Center for a third consecutive term, “democracy will cease to exist in the country”.