Mamata needs a seat in UP, SP seeks quid professional quo in Bengal | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: A dayafter West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s announcement that she was in talks with Akhilesh Yadav to discipline a Trinamool Congress candidate in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Occasion leaders on Monday got here up with a quid professional quo deal for Didi. They need TMC to discipline and again SP vice-president Kiranmoy Nanda from a seat in Bengal.
At a public assembly in Kolkata on Sunday, Mamata had introduced that she would contest the Lok Sabha polls in opposition to the Congress in Bengal and can lead the opposition in opposition to the BJP.She mentioned she was in talks with Akhilesh Yadav to discipline a TMC candidate in UP as nicely.
The SP deal was proposed by senior celebration chief and 7-time MLA from Zamania, Om Prakash Singh.
“UP is a brand new political area from TMC’s standpoint. If our celebration president Akhilesh Yadav will direct us, we’ll do all the pieces doable to make sure victory for the TMC candidate. However conserving in thoughts this demand from the TMC, we request our nationwide president to ask TMC for a seat for our chief Kiranmoy Nanda. TMC must help our candidate. He can contest and win election from any seat in West Bengal. Kolkata South seat has numerous voters from UP’s Ghazipur, Azamgarh and Chandauli districts and they’ll guarantee his grand victory with an enormous margin,” Om Prakash mentioned in a press release on his social media account.
Kiranmoy Nanda , who had based the West Bengal Socialist Occasion, was an MLA within the West Bengal Meeting for 35 years. He was additionally the fisheries minister within the Left Entrance govt for 30 years. His socialist ideology introduced him nearer to SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav. Nanda firmly stood with Akhilesh through the household feud within the celebration. Each Akhilesh and SP management have excessive regards for Nanda.
Apparently,Mamata’s announcement got here weeks after TMC chief from UP, Lalitesh Tripathi, praised Akhilesh Yadav in an interview given on social media. Tripathi, former MLA from Mariharan seat in Mirzapur (2012-17), was as soon as near Congress management, together with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka. He stop the Congress in 2021 and joined TMC.