The source of the acrimony then was the incessant verbal salvos he had unleashed on Mamata Banerjee. Over two years and the Trinamool’s three-way split later, the politician has decided to bury the hatchet. In 2024, the undivided Trinamool Congress blamed Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for derailing seat-sharing talks with the Congress for the Lok Sabha polls.
The Congress leader’s offer comes amid a rebellion-induced existential crisis that Mamata Banerjee and what remains of her party have been negotiating.
“I advise Mamata Banerjee. And I also ask our high command. Why doesn’t Mamata Banerjee join the Congress? The Congress leader’s offer comes amid a rebellion-induced existential crisis that Mamata Banerjee and what remains of her party have been negotiating. We have nothing to say. TMC (Trinamool) is a separate party now. If the Congress wants to come with an official proposal, we will discuss the matter in the party. The TMC is very much part of the INDIA alliance,” Roy was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
After the Trinamool Congress lost the Bengal assembly elections in May, a group of 60 MPs broke away and declared that it was the real Trinamool. The shock had not even sunk in among Trinamool leaders when over 20 MPs formed a separate bloc, merged with a little-known political outfit and extended support to the National Democratic Alliance.
Why doesn’t she join the Congress with all the MPs and MLAs of her party?” he said at a press conference. “He (Chowdhury) has said what he felt.
