Parliament winter seesion: TMC refuses to toe Congress line, wants to raise people’s issues | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: With the Congress-headed charge over the Adani issue paralysing both Houses of Parliament for two days now, TMC pushed for a different line from Congress at a meeting of its party MPs meeting on Wednesday. “TMC wants the House to run so that people’s issues can be raised,” party leader in Rajya Sabha, Derek O’Brien told reporters after the meeting.
Trinamool Congress agreed to a two-day discussion on the Constitution proposed by the govt, to use the opportunity to bring up issues like alleged deprivation of central funds to West Bengal and the situation in Manipur they want spotlighted in the House. “TMC wants Parliament to run. We don’t want one issue to disrupt Parliament. We must hold this govt accountable for its multiple failures,” said TMC Lok Sabha MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar.
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee‘s party is working out its own space within the INDIA bloc, after Congress’ recent electoral defeats in Haryana and Maharashtra and TMC’s victory in the Bengal bypolls. Most INDIA bloc veterans, including Banerjee, are expected to attend Jharkhand CM and JMM chief Hemant Soren’s swearing-in on Thursday, for a show of strength for the opposition bloc. Stating that TMC is part of the INDIA bloc at the national level, but not electoral allies with any party, Dastidar said, “We’ll take on BJP but our outlook on how to go about it can be strategically different.”