West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday launched a frontal attack on the Congress and the United Progressive Alliance, saying the UPA doesn't even exist now. The Trinamool Congress supremo's big political statement came after his meeting with Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai.
“What is UPA? There is no UPA now,” she said amid the already strained relationship between her party and the Congress.
“A firm alternative course should be made as nobody's fighting against ongoing fascism. Sharad Ji is the senior-most leader & I came to discuss our political parties. I agree with whatever Sharad Ji said. There is no UPA,” she said.
Banerjee is on a three-day visit to Mumbai to meet leaders of the Shiv Sena and the NCP, amid a strain in ties between the TMC and the Congress.
After its landslide victory in West Bengal earlier this year, the TMC inducted several Congress leaders in its fold. Recently, 12 out of 17 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya defected to the TMC, making it the principal opposition party in that state.
