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Naidu indicates poll tie-up between BJP, TC
Kolkata, Mar 16: Indicating that BJP would join hands with Trinamool Congress for the ensuing panchayat elections in West Bengal, party president M Venkaiah Naidu today exhorted TC supremo Mamata Banerjee to fight both the CPI-M and Congress as they were `two sides of the same coin`.
Kolkata, Mar 16: Indicating that BJP would join hands with Trinamool Congress for the ensuing panchayat elections in West Bengal, party president M Venkaiah Naidu today exhorted TC supremo Mamata Banerjee to fight both the CPI-M and Congress as they were 'two sides of the same coin'.
On BJP's alliance with the Trinamool Congress for the panchayat poll, Naidu told reporters that his party was in touch with TC. "We will discuss and come to an understanding. We are in dialogue with TC. This is indicative of things to come in the future."
The BJP chief said if Banerjee wanted to oust the CPI-M, she had to take on both the Marxists and the Congress as they were 'the two sides of the same coin'. "I would like her to understand that this is not the original Congress. It can compromise on any issue," he said.
Naidu declined comment on whether Banerjee would be inducted in the union cabinet describing it as the prerogative of the Prime Minister. "We do not want (to) encroach upon it."
He, however, told BJP workers in the state not to worry about an alliance and work hard at the grassroot level. Alliance could be thought at the time of elections, he said. Naidu asked them to bring out a document listing what Congress said about CPI-M during the recent assembly election in Tripura and what the Marxists say about Congress before the rural poll.
The BJP president also favoured a constitutional amendment to give more power and funds to panchayats and said his party would raise this issue in Parliament.
Bureau Report
The BJP chief said if Banerjee wanted to oust the CPI-M, she had to take on both the Marxists and the Congress as they were 'the two sides of the same coin'. "I would like her to understand that this is not the original Congress. It can compromise on any issue," he said.
Naidu declined comment on whether Banerjee would be inducted in the union cabinet describing it as the prerogative of the Prime Minister. "We do not want (to) encroach upon it."
He, however, told BJP workers in the state not to worry about an alliance and work hard at the grassroot level. Alliance could be thought at the time of elections, he said. Naidu asked them to bring out a document listing what Congress said about CPI-M during the recent assembly election in Tripura and what the Marxists say about Congress before the rural poll.
The BJP president also favoured a constitutional amendment to give more power and funds to panchayats and said his party would raise this issue in Parliament.
Bureau Report