Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec.2: Many Congress leaders slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for stating that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) no longer existed. Her comments caused some members of Congress to emphasise the importance of presenting a united front.
On Thursday, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal stated that without the Congress, the UPA would be a body without a soul, and that it was past time for the opposition to unite. “Time to show opposition unity,” Sibal tweeted.
UPA
Without the Congress , UPA will be a body without a soul
Time to show opposition unity
— Kapil Sibal (@KapilSibal) December 2, 2021
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, accused the TMC supremo of starting “madness” with her comments. “Does Mamata Banerjee not know what UPA is? I think she has started madness,” he said. “She thinks the whole of India has started chanting ‘Mamata, Mamata’. But India doesn’t mean Bengal and Bengal alone doesn’t mean India.”
Banerjee took a shot at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday after meeting with NCP Chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai, saying, “You can’t be abroad most of the time.There is an environment of fascism in the country today. A strong alternative needs to be given against it. Nobody can do it alone. Those who are strong should be taken together,” she said in a press briefing.
Asked whether Pawar would lead the UPA, she said: “What UPA? There is no UPA now. We will decide on it together.”
