Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, June 15: Asaduddin Owaisi, the leader of the AIMIM, stated on Wednesday that he was not invited to a meeting with opposition leaders held by Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to discuss the Presidential elections. Owaisi also said that he would have not participated in the meeting, even if invited because of Congress.
“I was not invited. Even if I were invited, I would not have participated. The reason is Congress. The TMC party which speaks ill about us, even if they had invited us, we would not have gone just because they invited the Congress,” Owaisi said to news agency ANI.
Notably, Mamata Banerjee will meet with numerous Opposition leaders on Wednesday to discuss the presidential election and how to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance together.
On Saturday, the TMC supremo invited leaders of 19 political parties, including eight non-Congress Opposition Chief Ministers, including K Chandrashekar Rao (TRS), Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann (AAP), Naveen Patnaik (BJD), Pinarayi Vijayan (CPM), Hemant Soren (JMM), M K Stalin (DMK), and Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena-led MVA) her discussing the strategy for the upcoming presidential election in the national capital.
Prior to the meeting, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee travelled to Delhi and met with Sharad Pawar, the leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). On July 18, presidential elections will be held, and the results will be announced on July 21.
