Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee held a meeting with Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi at the latter’s 10 Janpath residence here on Tuesday.
A Trinamool MP said the meeting went on from 4pm to 4.52pm.
“Yesterday, when Madam Sonia embraced Mamatadi, the body language was clear that INDIA is one and united,” added the MP, referring to the bonhomie between the two leaders at the bloc meeting in the Constitution Club here on Monday.
During the INDIA meeting, the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, reportedly said that Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Tejashwi Yadav and Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav were “40 per cent convinced” that the Bihar Assembly polls last year and the Uttar Pradesh Assembly bypolls in 2024 were rigged, and that Manata was “90 per cent sure” that the recent polls in Bengal were rigged.
Rahul said that he was 100 per cent sure of rigging.
Neither side shared details of the Sonia-Mamata meeting, although a Congress source said the break-up of Trinamool — a splinter from the Congress — was also discussed.
Trinamool Rajya Sabha leader Derek O’Brien posted on X: “Political vendetta shamelessly timed! EXACTLY AT THE SAME TIME as @AITCofficial Chairperson @MamataOfficial was having a meeting today in Delhi with Mrs Sonia Gandhi, CID was forcefully trying to enter the AITC party HQ adjoining residence in Kolkata. First loot vote, now loot files of a political rival. Democracy? Main entrance overloaded with CRPF.”
He was referring to a CID team's entry into Mamata's Kalighat residence as part of its probe into the controversy surrounding alleged forged signatures of Trinamool MLAs.
Officials of the state investigating agency, accompanied by personnel from the Kalighat police station and a large contingent of women police personnel, arrived at the party's central office at 30B Harish Chatterjee Street around late afternoon.