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Adhir Chowdhury Urges Mamata Banerjee to Rejoin Congress, Offers Leadership in Bengal
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News18•02-10-2026, 10:58
Adhir Chowdhury Urges Mamata Banerjee to Rejoin Congress, Offers Leadership in Bengal
- •Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury extended an unexpected invitation to TMC chief Mamata Banerjee to return to the Congress party.
- •Chowdhury stated that Congress is prepared to accept Mamata Banerjee's leadership in West Bengal.
- •The overture comes despite Chowdhury being one of Banerjee’s most consistent political critics in Bengal.
- •The invitation follows Banerjee's attendance at a Congress-led INDIA bloc meeting where she shared warm moments with Sonia Gandhi.
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Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury invited Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to return to the party she left nearly three decades ago, stating that the Congress is even prepared to accept her leadership in West Bengal.
The political overture came less than 24 hours after Mamata Banerjee attended a meeting of the Congress-led INDIA bloc in New Delhi, where she shared warm moments with Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has traditionally been one of Mamata Banerjee's most persistent and vocal political critics in Bengal.
