Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said an alliance between Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh could have stopped division in anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) votes in the upcoming assembly polls.
“It would be good if the Congress and Samajwadi Party had fought unitedly. The votes would not have been split. We requested them but they (Congress) did not listen,” Banerjee said at the Kolkata airport on Monday afternoon before leaving for Lucknow where she will campaign for the SP during her two-day tour in the run-up to the polls.
I am campaigning for Akhilesh Yadav. He invited me. I want him to win. He has the organizational setup. I want BJP to lose,” said Banerjee, adding that her party will contest some seats in Uttar Pradesh during the next general elections.
She also said that the TMC will contest the next Lok Sabha polls from Punjab. “I am interested in Punjab. We will contest the Lok Sabha polls there. I have toured the state several times,” she added.
