Two senior Congress leaders from Uttar Pradesh, including the grandson of party veteran Kamalpati Tripathi, on Monday joined the Trinamool Congress, while West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee He said that he is likely to visit the poll-bound state after Chhath Puja. The two leaders, Rajeshpati Tripathi and his son Lalitpati Tripathi, said they would continue the fight to oust the BJP from power in UP and the Center under the leadership of TMC supremo Banerjee.
Rajeshpati Tripathi is a former MLC, while Laliteshpati Tripathi is a former vice-president and former MLA of UP Congress. TMC sources said Rajeshpati and Laliteshpati are the grandson and great-grandson of former UP chief minister Kamalapati Tripathi respectively. “People’s confidence is increasing in TMC. The joining of both the leaders is a testimony that we are now a pan-India party which can give real fight to BJP. We have to go ahead to fight BJP as Congress In the last 15 years, Uttar Pradesh has failed to fight any battle against it,” Banerjee told reporters.
The TMC boss said that two UP leaders who joined the party invited her to visit Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi and she would go there after Chhath Puja. Assembly elections are due in UP next year. Alleging that the BJP was preventing the Trinamool Congress from organizing political events in Goa, Banerjee said she would also visit the western state in a few days.
Former Goa Chief Minister and Congress veteran Luizinho Faleiro joined the TMC last month and the party said it would contest the assembly elections there next year. Former Congress women’s wing chief and senior Assam leader Sushmita Dev had also joined the TMC sometime back. The Congress claimed that the TMC wanted to help the BJP by trying to weaken the grand old party, while the saffron party did not want to give much importance to leaders from other states joining the TMC.
Banerjee said, “We are an all India party. We can go anywhere. There is no Lakshman Rekha that can stop us. Lakshman Rekha should be for rioters. But in BJP ruled Goa, Tripura, UP it is the opposite. They commit atrocities on Dalits, women, farmers in Hathras and Lakhimpur. They don’t allow us to go on the side of people in distress.”
“If necessary, I will sit on the road to organize our events in Goa, if the BJP government does not allow us to organize our events in a democratic manner,” she said. On the late Kamalapati Tripathi, whose grandson and great-grandson joined the TMC, Banerjee said she had met the veteran Congress leader during the AICC convention in 1983.
He said Tripathi who belongs to the family of freedom fighters and belongs to the political spectrum of UP, many other families and organizations want to work with TMC. “Those who label TMC as a regional party should keep in mind that every party has a place of origin. Yes, we have a place of origin, but are we not Indians? Tripathi is from UP, but he We are Indians. We may hail from one region, but we are all Indians.”
When asked about people leaving the Congress and joining the TMC, Banerjee declined to comment. State Congress President Adhir Rajan Chowdhury alleged that the TMC’s main objective these days is to weaken the Congress nationally and in other states to help its “ally” BJP.
“TMC has been continuously attacking the Congress and looting our leaders. Trinamool Congress’s political stand is aimed at helping the BJP,” he said. BJP national vice president Dilip Ghosh refused to give much importance to development.
“Congress itself is an expensive force in Uttar Pradesh, so their leaders joining TMC hardly matters. BJP will come back to power in Uttar Pradesh,” he said. ?.
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