‘Unite In opposition to BJP’: Mamata Banerjee In Letter To Sonia Gandhi, Others

New Delhi:

Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to 10 key opposition leaders together with Congress’s Sonia Gandhi as of late, suggesting a large get-together for a approach to take at the BJP after the present spherical of meeting polls. The strongly worded seven-point letter mentioned the time has come for a “united and efficient fight in opposition to BJP’s assaults on democracy and the charter” and “presenting a reputable selection to the folk of India”.

Staring with the debatable new legislation that provides extra powers to Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor — the Centre’s consultant — in comparison to town’s elected govt,  Ms Banerjee introduced seven cases of what she referred to as the BJP’s “attacks” on democracy and cooperative Federalism.

“The BJP needs to make it unimaginable for non-BJP events to workout their constitutional rights and freedoms. It needs to dilute the powers of the state governments and downgrade them to mere municipalties. In brief, it needs to ascertain a one-party authoritarian rule in India,” she wrote.

“I strongly consider that the time has come for a united and efficient fight in opposition to BJP’s assaults on democracy and the charter… Because the chairperson of TMC, I shall paintings wholeheartedly with you and all different like-minded events on this struggle,” Ms Banerjee wrote.

But even so Sonia Gandhi, the letter used to be despatched to Natinalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar, DMK’s Stalin, Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray, YSR Congress leader Jagan Mohan Reddy, BJD leader Naveen Patnaik, Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader Ok Chandrashekar Rao, Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav, Rashtriya Jana Dal’s Tejaswi Yadav and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal. The notable exclusions had been CPI and CPIM.