Kolkata:

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee — on option to Spain to hunt funding — had an impromptu assembly with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on the Dubai airport. The dialog between the 2 leaders, apparently, was all politics and on the event, the President requested a vital query that is uppermost within the minds of many.

“Can I ask you a question,” Mr Wickremesinghe is heard saying in a brief clip that was circulated on-line. On Ms Banerjee’s acquiescence, he mentioned, “Will you lead the Opposition alliance? We all are wondering”.

“Oh my goodness,” the Bengal Chief Minister mentioned, fully bowled over. Then laughing, she added, “It depends on the will of the people, you know… If people support us, we can be in position (power) tomorrow.”

The Opposition Front INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) is at the moment being run by collectin=ve management and who it’ll lastly select because the face to tackle Prime Minister Narendra Modi has intrigued many.

The Front leaders have maintained silence, remarking that there are a lot of who’re eligible and a name could be taken when the time comes.

The management query has earlier proved divisive for many opposition fronts, with many leaders not seeing eye to eye with the Congress, the most important nationwide social gathering within the grouping.

This time, the Congress has been cautious to maintain to the background, ceding the pole place to different leaders together with Ms Banerjee, her Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar and Maharashtra’s Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray.

Sources mentioned  Mr Wickremesinghe additionally gifted a portray to Mamata Banerjee.