Mamata calls meeting to find out reason for LS setbacks

TIL Desk/National/Kolkata/ Forty-eight hours after the election results that brought Trinamool Congress’s tally in the Lok Sabha down from 34 to 22, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will meet party leaders and all candidates who fought the polls at her home at 3:30 pm today.

Banerjee has not spoken a word after the results, barring a tweet and two poems she put into circulation on social media. At today’s meeting, the Trinamool Congress is likely to begin a review of its dismal performance and the challenge ahead for the assembly elections 2021.

A few leaders who have spoken on the results have said this was a temporary setback and people will be back with the Trinamool Congress by the time assembly elections come around. “This is an aberration. Things will go back to normal by 2021,” said Firhad Hakim, Urban Affairs Minister and Mayor of Kolkata.

Subrata Mukherjee, Trinamool Congress leader who was defeated in Bankura seat, accused the Left of voting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party in exchange for money. “This low level politics has to be exposed,” Mukherjee said.