“Let’s wait… India will form coalition government after few days”: Mamata Banerjee

Kolkata:

Party chief Mamata Banerjee is elated with Trinamool Congress’s big win against BJP in West Bengal. He said wait, after few days coalition government will be formed in India. He said governments “sometimes last for a day”. Speaking at a Trinamool Congress parliamentary party meeting on Saturday, a day before the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ministers, Banerjee also said her party would not attend the event because the government was “illegal and being formed in an undemocratic manner.

This time PM Modi and BJP are dependent on their allies. Especially over Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP and Nitish Kumar’s JDU as the BJP won 240 Lok Sabha seats in the recently concluded elections and is 32 short of the majority figure.

Since 2014, BJP has won majority twice on its own. Taking a jibe at the state the BJP has reached now, the Bengal Chief Minister said, “Those who talked about 400 (Lok Sabha seats), could not even get a simple majority on their own. Don’t think that just because India has not claimed coalition (to form the government), nothing will happen. We wait and see if things change. Eventually this will be the new Indian government, but let them stay for a few days. Sometimes governments last only one day… anything can happen, who knows this government will last even 15 days?

Bharat Gatbandhan managed to win 232 Lok Sabha seats due to the strong performance of allies like Congress, Samajwadi Party, Trinamool Congress and DMK. The Trinamool is the fourth largest party in Parliament and four of the top five parties are part of the Indian Alliance. However, the coalition falls far short of the number required for a majority.

Letters of support to the BJP from NDA allies have also not stopped Bharatiya Janata Party leaders from hinting that they may form the government. Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge also said after the coalition meeting on Thursday that the Bharatiya Janata Party would take the right steps at the right time to “realize the people’s desire not to be ruled by the BJP”.

‘Will not attend oath-taking ceremony’

Continuing her attack on the BJP, Mamata Banerjee said that laws passed using brute force, including the Citizenship Amendment Act, should be repealed.

Regarding the swearing-in ceremony on Sunday, he said, “We cannot wish them well because they are forming the government illegally and undemocratically. They will try to break the parties again, but they will break from within because many people are unhappy.” We have not received an invitation to the swearing-in ceremony and will not be going.

Will demand change in election process: Mamata Banerjee

Inviting all the members of the India Alliance to Kolkata for the meeting, the Chief Minister of Bengal said that the state had voted in seven phases of the Lok Sabha elections between April 19 and June 1. “The election process cannot continue for two months. We demand this change in the interest of the people,” he said.

The Trinamool Congress won 29 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, compared to 22 last time. BJP had 18 seats in 2019 which has reduced to 12 this time.

Banerjee was elected as the president of the Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party in Saturday’s party meeting. Sudip Bandopadhyay will be the leader of the party in the Lok Sabha and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar will be the deputy leader. Derek O’Brien will once again lead the party in the Rajya Sabha and for the first time MP Sagarika Ghosh will be the deputy leader.

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