Mamata is pushing her case to take over 'INDI alliance' leadership as she is growing "Nervous" about 2026 polls

Mamata Banerjee has given herself a new mission. Technically it's a face-saver and a desperate one.

She is pushing her case to take over INDI alliance leadership as she is growing nervous about 2026 polls. 

The move is to hoodwink her captive voters to keep them further captive for a longer period. 

Bangladesh developments exposed her double standards and hence --  playing 'aapa' has come to haunt Didi.

Moreover the RG Kar episode was her Singur moment. She has lost ground considerably and hence this deceptive game.

She is good at that. But now the mistress of manipulation is running short of tricks.

The Samajwadi Party is backing her as Akhilesh Yadav is never comfortable with Congress stabilisation or doing well in Uttar Pradesh. The Lok Sabha polls saw BJP losing ground and the beneficiaries were both the Congress and the Akhilesh-led SP. 

Hence, Akhilesh Yadav is not quite happy with the grand old party doing well.

If West Bengal polls are due in 2026, the UP polls will have to be held in March 2027.

The year 2027 can leave tumultuous results in more than one sense. That year we could have get an answer to the decade's most prized question 'After Namo who?'.  

Secondly, the country will then have to elect new President and Vice President yet again ! 

After Mamata showed interest to take over the responsibility of  leading  INDI alliance; the Samajwadi Party said she would be able to strengthen the alliance.

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The friction in the opposition was out in the open after INDI allies spoke in differing voices on Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee's remark that she was ready to lead the coalition. 

The Congress voiced its opposition to Mamata's idea and one party MP called the idea 'a joke'. On the other hand, the RJD said former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav was the real architect of the INDIA bloc.

But the knives were also out for the Congress, with the Samajwadi Party and the CPI asking it to introspect while pitching for a greater role of the alliance partners. Samajwadi Party national spokesperson Udaiveer Singh said the INDIA bloc should discuss Banerjee's suggestion and extended "100% support and cooperation" to the TMC supremo.

CPI general secretary D Raja was equally scathing of the Congress for not accommodating its allies in the Haryana and Maharashtra polls. 

"Congress needs to introspect. It didn't accommodate alliance partners in the Haryana and Maharashtra polls. The results would have been different in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls had Congress heard INDIA bloc partners," he said.

RJD's Mrityunjay Tiwari asserted that it was on Lalu Prasad Yadav's initiative that the first meeting of the opposition alliance was held in Patna. 

"The real architect of the opposition alliance against BJP is Lalu Prasad Yadav. Everyone is engaged in the fight against the BJP in their respective states. Mamata Banerjee fights strongly against the BJP in West Bengal. Now, it is Bihar's turn in 2025," the RJD leader said.

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