"Mamata Banerjee Sole Gravitating Force, More To Join": Meghalaya Leader
NDTV
Meghalaya Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Sangma recently switched over to Mamata Banerjee's party making it the opposition party in the northeastern state.
Terming West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee a "gravitating force", Meghalaya Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Sangma on Tuesday said that more people will join the movement against BJP under her leadership, which has made people believe that political dynamics in the country will change in the coming days.
The two-time former Meghalaya chief minister, who is in Kolkata along with 11 other Congress MLAs who recently switched over to Ms Banerjee's party making it the opposition party in the northeastern state, asserted that TMC flags will flutter across his state in the next 45 days.
Addressing a press conference at the Trinamool headquarters, Mr Sangma said that the entire Northeast wants a "true alternative" to the Congress that can sincerely take on the BJP and promote the interests of the people of the region, and "All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) chairperson (Mamata Banerjee) is the force they should gravitate to".
He said that the Meghalaya legislators' decision to join the party was not an overnight decision and they had deliberated for long how to protect the interests of the people of the state, "which was not possible under the central Congress leadership".
