Mumbai : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be reaching Mumbai on Tuesday. Banerjee is scheduled to meet Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. She is on a three day tour to Maharashtra.
In her three day tour she might meet the industrialists, on December 1, and invite them to Bengal Global Business Summit, to be held in April next year.
“Mamata Banerjee will be on three-day visit to Mumbai from tomorrow. She will hold meetings with Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. The Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also aims to attract investments to the state,” a senior Trinamool Congress leader said.
As per sources, her meeting with Maharashtra Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party Chief comes amid her party’s widening rift with the Congress.
Notably, the Trinamool Congress has skipped an opposition leaders’ meeting called by the Congress ahead of Parliament’s Winter Session on Monday and also staged its own protests inside Parliament House demanding the Centre to repeal the three contentious farm laws. The Congress held a similar protest too, led by its president Sonia Gandhi.
The meeting also holds significance as the Trinamool Congress is trying to expand its national footprint with Banerjee spearheading efforts to unite opposition parties against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the 2024 general elections in the country. Several leaders joined the Trinamool Congress recently with the defection of 12 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya, including the state’s former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, being the latest.
Mamata Banerjee had last week visited Nation’s capital and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to press for various demands of the state.
She, however, did not pay a visit to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, given the changed equation between the Trinamool Congress and the grand old party.
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