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Samajwadi Party (SP) person Akhilesh Yadav connected Thursday (May 7, 2026) called connected Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, successful Kolkata.
The SP person reached the Kalighat residence of the erstwhile Chief Minister, and was received by Mr. Banerjee. “You fought precise well,” Mr. Yadav was heard telling Mr. Banerjee.
Welcoming Mr. Yadav, Ms. Banerjee said, “We person lost.”
“No, no, you person not lost,” Mr. Yadav said successful response.
Speaking to media persons aft the meeting, Mr. Yadav alleged that the votes for the West Bengal Assembly predetermination had been stolen by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Election Commission of India (ECi), and different agencies.
“We are successful this conflict with Didi (Mamata Banerjee) due to the fact that we person to prevention ideology and the Constitution. If the close to ballot is taken away, past what remains of democracy?” Mr. Yadav said. He expressed the anticipation that aft the West Bengal election, radical would “take the acquisition and not fto the BJP seizure elections”.
The SP person called the BJP anti-women, and said that Ms. Banerjee had been targeted due to the fact that of her gender. “Didi is not a idiosyncratic to beryllium disappointed. She is simply a idiosyncratic of struggle. The BJP is patriarchal and feudal. That is wherefore Didi has been targeted, due to the fact that she is simply a woman,” helium said.
The gathering betwixt the leaders of 2 Opposition parties assumed governmental value amid efforts by the Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc to recalibrate their strategies aft the elections successful respective States. The Trinamool chairperson successful her archetypal media enactment aft the nonaccomplishment had said that she would enactment to fortify the INDIA alliance. Election to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly volition instrumentality spot successful 2027, wherever the SP volition instrumentality connected the BJP.
After the meeting, the Trinamool Congress, from its authoritative X handle, shared photographs of the leaders to say, “Some bonds transcend authorities and time, increasing stronger done each season.”
Mr. Yadav besides posted the photographs of the gathering and said: “Didi has ever won hearts; that is her eternal victory.”
“Meeting the astir almighty and prestigious typical of fractional the country’s population, meaning women, has contiguous infused the authorities of conflict with caller vigor and caller heights,” the SP main said connected societal media.
In the precocious concluded West Bengal Assembly election, the BJP won 207 seats to unafraid much than a two-thirds bulk successful the 294-member West Bengal Legislative Assembly. The TMC, led by Ms. Banerjee, has been reduced to lone 80 seats.
Following the loss, respective leaders of the Opposition INDIA bloc, including Sonia Gandhi, reached retired to Ms. Banerjee. During the predetermination run for the precocious concluded West Bengal election, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) person Tejashwi Yadav, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) person Arvind Kejriwal, and the Chief Minister of Jharkhand Hemant Soren had campaigned for the Trinamool Congress.
