Mamata Gives Cold Shoulder To Chandrababu Over Opposition Meeting

With the majority of surveys and ground reports pointing to an impending defeat in Andhra Pradesh, TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu has been making strenuous efforts to keep himself and his party afloat by somehow playing a role at the Centre. His multiple visits to West Bengal and New Delhi by projecting himself as a “facilitator” of regional parties lately are indicators in this direction. But it emerges that Chandrababu’s outreach to regional and national parties’ leaders are of no help.
Sensing an opportunity, Chandrababu thought he can have regional parties rally behind him as a UPA – III convenor for an alliance that could come about in the event of BJP’s National Democratic Alliance falling short of numbers and unable to form the government at the Centre. To this effect, he insisted for a meeting of opposition parties on May 21, two days before the announcement of election results. This was basically done with an agenda to propose his name as the convenor for an upcoming coalition of parties. But it is learnt that both West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banarjee and Congress President Rahul Gandhi turned down the offer of Chandrababu with a criticism as how can they go about such plan even before election results are out.

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