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Wayanad By Election: West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee has not given a single seat to Congress in her state in the Lok Sabha elections but now she will go to Wayanad to campaign for Priyanka Gandhi's party. The Congress party had requested her for this which she has accepted. Earlier, Mamata Banerjee had given the idea to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to contest elections from Varanasi.
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram met Mamata Banerjee at the Secretariat in Kolkata. Sources said that Chidambaram had gone to meet Mamata as an emissary of the Gandhi family.
The TMC supremo is upset with the Congress and has particularly blamed Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for the failure of the Congress-TMC alliance narrative. After TMC's big win in Bengal, Abhishek Banerjee, the second-largest TMC leader after quitting the Congress, is moving fast towards bringing the constituents of the all-India alliance together on various issues by meeting them.
Abhishek Banerjee met Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and Aam Aadmi Party's Raghav Chadha in New Delhi and later went to Mumbai to meet Uddhav Thackeray. Earlier this week, a TMC delegation of MPs Kalyan Banerjee, Sagarika Ghose and Saket Gokale met NCP supremo Sharad Pawar in Mumbai and participated in a joint protest demanding a SEBI probe into alleged stock market manipulation on the day of the exit polls. The Congress was not involved in the agitation.
TMC has emerged as the third largest party among opposition groups in the Lok Sabha with 29 MPs. To assuage TMC's resentment, Congress top leaders sent Chidambaram for direct talks with Mamata Banerjee to resolve the differences. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, a well-known critic of Mamata Banerjee, also took a soft stand on Friday, saying that his differences with the West Bengal Chief Minister were purely political. It is not personal.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said, 'Before the Bengal assembly elections in 2011, I told Sonia Gandhi that Congress should form an alliance with TMC to fight the Left. I told her that Mamata Banerjee is the most credible face in Bengal and we should form an alliance with her and if there is a Congress-TMC alliance, we will perform well. I have no personal differences with Mamata Banerjee, it is completely political.'