Trinamool Congress President Mamata Banerjee He is expected to visit Varanasi next month, amid indications that his party will support Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Didi has already said in Delhi that if Akhilesh Yadav We need your help, we are ready to help. The gesture of senior SP leader Jaya Bachchan seeking votes for TMC during West Bengal assembly elections will change in Uttar Pradesh,” said Laliteshpati Tripathi, who recently joined TMC.
Tripathi told PTI on Sunday, “The goal is the same and we leave no stone unturned to ensure that these forces (led by the BJP) are defeated. We are also with SP chief Akhilesh ji in his fight. ,
He said Banerjee would probably visit Varanasi in the second week of January. “TMC is holding meetings and considering how to strengthen itself in Uttar Pradesh. As far as party chief Mamata Banerjee’s visit to Varanasi is concerned, we have not finalized the dates. We were planning to organize his visit in December, but due to his previous engagements, we could not get the dates,” Tripathi said.
He said that the immediate focus of Trinamool is not on Uttar Pradesh. Tripathi said Goa and Tripura being the immediate attention states for the TMC, his party is not in the fray in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections due early next year.
Asked whether Banerjee is visiting Varanasi as it is represented by the Prime Minister? Narendra Modi In the Lok Sabha and possibly because she wants to send a message, Tripathi said, “No. According to the initial roadmap of the TMC, the office of the party’s Purvanchal unit was to be in Varanasi, and Mamata ji wanted to visit (temples) . Was.”
Tripathi also argued that he chose Varanasi as the first phase of new members joining the TMC was to be in the holy city.
Laliteshpati Tripathi, former state Congress vice president and great-grandson of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kamalapati Tripathi, and his father Rajeshpati joined the TMC in Siliguri in the presence of Banerjee on October 25.
Asked why he and his father joined the Trinamool Congress, the 43-year-old leader said Banerjee has the ability to fight Prime Minister Modi.
Meanwhile, SP national vice-president Kiranmoy Nanda told PTI on Sunday, “We have supported her (Mamata Banerjee) in the West Bengal assembly elections. I myself have campaigned for him in the election.
“We welcome Didi’s gesture (offer of support). We want to defeat BJP and Didi also wants to defeat BJP. If Didi supports us, we are happy and we welcome it.”
Asked how he sees Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is trying to mobilize the party cadre (before the elections), Laliteshpati Tripathi said, “Politics is not a game, with two-three days before the election. Days before.” starts months ago. Taking the example of Mamata Banerjee, she stayed there for three-four years and fought the communists in the state. Congress also needs the same thing.”
“The Congress seems to be fighting now, and it is good for the candidates that the star campaigners are active. Whoever takes advantage of it will do it. But as far as the revival of the party is concerned, it should have started in 2019.
Commenting on the announcement made by Priyanka Gandhi that Congress will give 40 per cent tickets to women in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, and whether it could possibly be a game changer, Tripathi said, “If it was to be made a game changer, Uttarakhand would be . Should have been implemented in states like Goa and Punjab, where they could guarantee the victory of their candidates, and it could have been a strong initiative towards women empowerment.
“It is a welcome move, but you cannot win an election on the basis of it because there are many other factors,” he said.
“Didi has shown that she can defeat Narendra Modi and she can defeat him too,” Tripathi said. He said that the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly election has become Akhilesh Yadav vs Yogi Adityanath.
“If Akhilesh is seen in a strong position, the prime minister will have to come here and lead the (BJP’s election) campaign,” Tripathi said.
Tripathi claimed that the BJP’s tally of seats in the 2022 assembly elections will come down to 312 from the 2017 total because “there is anger in the society, farmers are worried about the lack of proper procurement of paddy and unavailability of fertilisers.”
He also claimed that the BJP would lose seats in rural areas of Varanasi in the assembly elections. Tripathi said that he and his father have not taken any designation in TMC and are working to strengthen it in the state.
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