The Trinamool Congress has made up our minds to abstain from balloting in the vice presidential elections because it doesn’t accept as true with the arrangement the Opposition candidate was as soon as made up our minds with out conserving the win together in the loop. The decision was as soon as taken after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a gathering with TMC MPs on Thursday.
NDA has fielded broken-down West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as its candidate for the vice presidential election, while the Opposition events occupy fielded broken-down Rajasthan governor Margaret Alva.
The TMC has registered its declare as to how the joint Opposition candidate was as soon as announced with out consulting Mamata Banerjee.
Mamata Banerjee’s personal relationship with Alva is reportedly very top, but she has been upset that Congress and even the NCP did now not enlighten her earlier than asserting Alva’s name.
“We disagree with the project of asserting the Opposition candidate with out conserving TMC in the loop. We occupy been neither consulted nor was as soon as anything talked about with us. So we are able to now not give a grab to the Opposition nominee,” TMC nationwide frequent secretary Abhishek Banerjee said.
Earlier, the command BJP leaders had asked Mamata Banerjee to lengthen her give a grab to to broken-down Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who had incessantly hit headlines over his frequent speed-ins with the Bengal authorities since assuming payment in 2019.
The vice presidential poll will be held on August 6 to elect the successor to M Venkaiah Naidu, whose term ends on August 10.
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