Mamata Banerjee met Sonia Gandhi final on the latter’s residence in July 2021.

Bengaluru:

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi shared moments collectively, inquiring about one another’s well being and strategising on opposition unity on the primary day of the Bengaluru meet, sources informed PTI.

The two leaders met one another after a niche of two years. The final time Ms Banerjee met Mrs Gandhi was on the latter’s residence in July 2021.

While the 2 leaders have all the time had a cordial relationship, sure feedback made by Congress leaders each in Delhi and West Bengal had been believed to have led to some dangerous blood between them.

Ms Banerjee, the sources mentioned, was notably upset concerning the remarks made by Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the Congress’s Lok Sabha MP from Behrampore in West Bengal, labelling her as a dictator and the employees of her Trinamool Congress as goons.

Sources mentioned each Ms Banerjee and Mrs Gandhi arrived on the venue of the summit at round 6 pm and had been seen chatting with one another for about half an hour, earlier than the assembly began.

They mentioned each inquired about one another’s well being – Ms Banerjee is recovering from a knee surgical procedure and Mrs Gandhi too has had well being points.

Sources mentioned the 2 leaders additionally sat subsequent to one another in the course of the assembly that lasted for round an hour-and-a-half and mentioned methods by which their events can work collectively and keep united in opposition to the ruling BJP on the Centre.

Ms Banerjee, who was imagined to skip dinner after the assembly attributable to her surgical procedure, stayed on for a while after the deliberations however didn’t eat something, sources mentioned.

Trinamool nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee and nationwide spokesperson Derek O’Brien attended the dinner after Ms Banerjee left.

The Congress and the Trinamool are probably play a serious function within the coming days to cement the opposition unity. Mrs Gandhi had not attended the final opposition assembly held in Patna on June 23.

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