Interestingly, sonia gandhi and mamata banerjee are fighting the Battle of Wits– one trying to retain the leaders of the opposition front in order to secure the future of their son and the other to form a large group of pressure in that front in order to keep everything possible for 2024. This is a political soap opera.
Through Bannerjee's steadfast respect for Late Rajiv gandhi, two powerful women of indian politics enjoy great relations. But that did not prevent the two people, who are not exactly mutual, pursue their own interests. If she willingly allows mamata banerjee to finish the congress northeasterly, a project strongly promoted by the congress in Trinamool, she must be a very magnanimous politician (TMC). One has to consider Banerjee attending the virtual gandhi meeting four days after the conference in assam was stirred by Sushmita Deb, head of the Mahila congress, and former parliamentary leader, in the TMC.
In order to welcome Banerjee to the virtual meetings and discuss their combined fight against the bjp, the provisional president of the congress must be equally gifted. This is also because Banerjee negotiates with Pradyot Debbarma, the former Chief of congress of Tripura, to merge his party, TIPRA, into a TMC or alliance that leaves congress in the cold. The TMC is looking to gain at the expense of the congress both in assam and Tripura. It is only time for mamata banerjee to go to other northeastern countries to dislocate congress from the principal space of the opposition party before challenging the governing parties.
The irony here is that the poll strategist prashant kishor, a friend of rahul gandhi that is probably negotiating his entry into the congress, is helping Banerjee in his congressional project in the northeast. rahul gandhi, who had presided over the defeat of the congress in Kerala, had become friends with Sitaram Yechury. Will she also foster her friendship with mamata banerjee while she continues to demolish the Congress? The answer is yes, as the Gandhis still look to prashant kishor to assist both the trinamool congress and Congress.
But Banerjee's aggressive approach, and obviously not rahul gandhi, is sure to test her friendship with sonia gandhi as a bulwark against the bjp in 2024.
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