New Delhi: As the Congress deftly pushes for Opposition unity, Trinamul president Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday hit the ground running in her quest for a Federal Front and came up with a “1:1 formula”, that proposes state-level alliances be formed to defeat the BJP.
Top sources told this newspaper that at the meeting, Ms Banerjee pitched for a Federal Front. NCP leader Praful Patel told the media that both leaders agreed that there should be “maximum unity” among the Opposition parties to take on the BJP.
“The situation will evolve in the coming months for Assembly and Lok Sabha polls. There are of course a lot of different views on what kind of approach should be taken. But certainly what the leaders discussed was that Opposition unity should be the maximum possible as has been witnessed today in Uttar Pradesh, where the BSP and SP have started working together, and therefore it is important that political differences among the Opposition parties should be resolved,” Mr Patel said.
On whether she would meet UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Ms Banerjee said she had sent party MP Dinesh Trivedi to the Congress office in Parliament to say that she would like to call on Mrs Gandhi “to enquire about her health”.
