Mamata compares Modi govt with ‘hundred Hilters’; hints at alliance with Congress before polls

Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that she has no objection to ally with Congress to throw away the Bharaiya Janata Party government from the Centre, which is acting like “a hundred Hitlers”. She was of the opinion that working with Congress President Rahul Gandhi would be a different experience, as he is ‘much junior’.

In a interview given to the magazine, the WB Chief Minister said that she shares very good relations with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, but has never worked with Rahul Gandhi. Though she denied to have a Prime Ministerial aspirations, but said she has no problems working with anybody as long as their intentions and philosophy are clear.

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Speaking with India Today, she said, “Instead of preparing for PM candidature, let us work together. What I can say about Rajiv ji or Sonia ji I cannot say about Rahul because he is much junior.” Adding further, she said, “I don’t have any problem. My intention will be to unite with all. But it is not my decision alone. It has to be the decision of all the regional parties. I have no problem working with anybody as long as they are efficient, and their intentions, their philosophy, their ideology are clear.”

On the issue that some parties want to forge a federal front without the Congress, she said, “I don’t blame them. I say let’s work against the BJP together. If the Congress is strong and gets more seats in some places, let it take the lead. If the regional parties are together somewhere else, they can be the decision-makers.”

As per the information, Rahul Gandhi held individual meetings with senior party leaders from West Bengal in the national capital on Friday. The meeting with leaders was conducted to know their views on strengthening the state unit and on the way forward ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2019.

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Though a section of Congress leaders had shown inclination to have a tie-up with the TMC in West Bengal, PCC chief Adhir Ranjan Choudhary is not in favour of party having any truck with Banerjee’s party. However, TMC chief expressed confidence that a grand alliance of opposition parties is possible.

Attacking the BJP, she even compared the party with ‘hundred hitlers’. She said,”They are committing atrocities, inflicting torture. Even some BJP people are not supporting them. They are behaving like a hundred Hitlers.”

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