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 As several leaders from its fold joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the last few months, Congress has now decided to launch an all-out attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led party with its top leaders taking the charge.Mamata’s “there is no UPA” remark after a meeting in Mumbai with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, an ally of Congress in Maharashtra, evoked a strong response from the party, currently being led by interim president Sonia Gandhi. At an ev...

Mamata Banerjee’s bid to prop up a grand alliance minus the Congress is a posture that is aimed at showcasing the “Modi Versus Mamata” battle for 2024. But not everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.

After the policy of distancing itself from the Congress isolated the Trinamool Congress (TMC) from the rest of the Opposition, Mamata Banerjee’s party on Wednesday changed its tack a bit and joined the demonstration in the Parliament House complex to protest the suspension of the 12 Rajya Sabha MPs.

Though the Trinamool Congress has of late started distancing itself from the Congress, suspension of the 12 MPs, including two of its own, from the Rajya Sabha has put Mamata Banerjee’s party under pressure as it found itself isolated from the rest of the Opposition. The Trinamool Congress had stayed away from a meeting of the Opposition parties convened by the Congress on

The Cold War between the Congress and the TMC has raised questions about Opposition unity.

Reacting to the reported tussle between Congress and Trinamool Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national vice-president Dilip Ghosh said that TMC chief Mamata Banerjee wants to be the leader of the opposition as Congress interim President Sonia Gandhis days are over.

Trinamool Congress is standing along with Opposition parties but will take its own path, said party MP Nadimul Haque on Tuesday.

Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was in Delhi for four days but did not meet Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi. Instead, she chose to meet disgruntled Congress leaders and while she was in Delhi the Congress unit in Meghalaya split and former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma joined the TMC.

Tribune News Service New Delhi, November 28 The Congress on Sunday put up a brave face in the wake of TMC’s decision to skip the opposition meeting called by veteran Mallikarjun Kharge on Mond

The opposition unity to fight the BJP seems to have run into rough weather as the TMC and the Congress are at daggers drawn over the recent instances of "poaching" by the Mamata Banerjee-led camp, with the grand old party finding itself in a tight spot.