Bengal Split: Mamata Banerjee-Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Rift Has Bitter Past As Ex-Congress Colleagues
The Opposition INDIA alliance is falling apart in West Bengal, where the Left parties have been opposing the TMC for a long time. This is because Mamata Banerjee, the TMC chief and the state’s Chief Minister, has announced that her party will go solo in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, leaving the Congress behind. The relationship between the TMC and the state Congress unit has been sour and bitter for years, especially between Mamata and the state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who are also the CM and the Leader of the Lok Sabha respectively. They have been hostile to each other for decades. Mamata, who is 69 years old and has been the CM three times, left the Congress and formed the TMC on January 1, 1998. Adhir, who is 67 years old and has been an MP from Berhampo...
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