The Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee will visit Mumbai on Tuesday and plans to visit Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and National Party (NCP) Chairman Sharad Pawar during the three-day visit.

The news agency PTI quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that she also plans to meet with industrialists in the state on December 1 to invite investment for her hometown.

“From tomorrow, Mamata Banerjee will be on a three-day visit to Mumbai. She will hold meetings with NCP Supreme Leader Sharad Pawar and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. CM also aims to attract investment for the state. ,” PTI quoted a senior party leader as saying on Monday.

She met Thackeray and Pawar, two of the three alliance partners of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in power in the state of Maharashtra, when the gap between her party and the parliament was widening, the latter being the third of MVA. Partners. It is worth noting that Trinamool skipped the meeting of opposition leaders before Monday’s Parliamentary Winter Meeting and staged its own protest in the Parliament building, demanding that the center repeal three controversial agricultural laws. A similar protest was held in Congress, led by its President Sonia Gandhi.

This meeting is also significant because Trinamool is trying to expand its footprint across the country, and Banerjee is leading the effort to unite the opposition party against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) before the country’s 2024 general election. Several leaders recently joined Trinamool, and 12 MPs from Meghalaya defected, including the state’s predecessor, CM Mukul Sangma, who is the latest.

During her recent political visit to Goa, her political party is participating in the 2022 state assembly elections, and celebrities including tennis star Leander Paes have also been elected to the party.

However, the party suffered a setback against the BJP in the recently concluded Tripura Citizens’ Poll, which won 329 seats out of the 334 seats in the state’s urban citizenship institutions. TMC currently has only one seat.

Earlier last week, Banerjee met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and raised the issue of expanding the jurisdiction of the Border Security Force (BSF) in border countries, including the alleged violence in Bangladesh and Tripura. .

According to several news reports, she also invited him to attend the Global Business Summit to be held in Bangladesh next year.

News Source : Hindustan Times