New Delhi sources have stated that Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien said the opposition should not pitch the next Lok Sabha polls as a presidential style contest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and feels a "collective leadership" would bring parties together against the BJP in each state.
Moreover he also says that Bengal will play a very important role in the collective leadership of opposition parties, an obvious reference to his party supreme Mamata Banerjee. Meanwhile he also said that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee can play a role in bringing opposition parties together in crucial states such as Uttar Pradesh.
O'Brien said in Uttar Pradesh, there are Bahujan
Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress. He added “Trinamool
Congress can play the role of a bridge between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi
Party in Delhi and, in the same way, the Congress can play the role of a bridge
between the Trinamool Congress and the Left in West Bengal”.
