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Mamata on Rahul's PM Candidacy: INDIA Alliance a 'Family', Will Campaign for Akhilesh, Kejriwal
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News18•01-10-2026, 18:15
Mamata on Rahul's PM Candidacy: INDIA Alliance a 'Family', Will Campaign for Akhilesh, Kejriwal
- •TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee briefed party MPs, discussing Rahul Gandhi's potential prime ministerial candidacy and calling the INDIA alliance a family.
- •Mamata clarified she would campaign for Akhilesh Yadav and Arvind Kejriwal if invited, emphasizing unity within the INDIA alliance.
- •She aggressively demanded the arrest of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, whom TMC dubbed 'Vanish Kumar', alleging he 'vanished' voting rights in Bengal.
- •Mamata accused Gyanesh Kumar of snatching voting rights and questioned the legal protection for election commissioners under the 2023 law.
- •She alleged 4000 EVMs were burnt in Bengal to ensure BJP's victory and criticized the deletion of voters in TMC-winning areas.
Key Questions Answered
Mamata Banerjee stated that the INDIA alliance operates like a collective family and emphasized that any decision regarding a prime ministerial candidate will be made collectively.
The TMC accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of deliberately erasing the voting rights of citizens in Bengal and alleged massive voter deletions across 150 assembly constituencies.
After losing both her party symbol and her faction's initial candidate in the Nandigram by-election, Mamata Banerjee decided to support the Congress candidate Milan Pradhan.
