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Lok Sabha Speaker Election: The opposition alliance India now seems to be getting the support of Trinamool Congress on the issue of Lok Sabha Speaker. There are reports that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has convinced West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to support him. Earlier there were reports that BJP has also talked to the TMC supremo about this. Earlier, TMC had expressed displeasure over the 'one-sided selection' of K. Suresh as the Speaker candidate.
About Rahul convincing her?
TMC leader and CM Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee had objected to K. Suresh's candidature. Now there are reports that Rahul has convinced the TMC supremo after talking to him for about 20 minutes. It is being told that the conversation between the two took place at 5 pm yesterday. A meeting of the opposition alliance India was also held late at night, in which Derek O'Brien and Kalyan Banerjee were also present.
Did BJP also try?
The report quoted sources as saying that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also spoke to the West Bengal Chief Minister yesterday afternoon. A TMC leader said, 'Both of them discussed the issue of the Speaker and the opposition fielding a candidate against the BJP candidate.
