NEW DELHI: Former Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has lost Bengal, but there are indications that she hopes to play a role nationally. This became clear not just in the recently held INDIA bloc meet, but also in her subsequent interaction with reporters.
Asked whether she would support Congress’s Rahul Gandhi as the Prime Ministerial face of the Opposition Bloc for the 2029 general election, Banerjee adroitly sidestepped the question. “Don’t ask questions of this nature,” Banerjee said. “We are one family. We will decide when the time comes,” she added.
That the Prime Ministerial face will be decided “when the time comes” has been the Trinamool chiefs refrain over more than a decade. The lack of a decision on this issue has been cited as one of the key factors that has cost the opposition bloc at the hustings.
This time, Banerjee had strongly supported the Opposition bloc meet to decide a strategy on Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Banerjee got her opening when CPM General Secretary MA Baby wrote to INDIA bloc leaders, saying the situation arising from the conflict between the Chief Election Commissioner and the other two commissioners was unprecedented. This, he wrote, warranted an immediate meeting of the alliance.
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