On the eve of a crucial meeting of the opposition parties in Patna, Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that all parties will fight together the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
“Will fight together, will fight like a family,” she said while talking to reporters outside the residence of Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, where she met his father and RJD president Lalu Prasad.
The Trinamool Congress chief was accompanied by her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, an MP.
Banerjee took no queries from reporters at the airport, and waved at them from inside her car.
She drove straight to the 5, Desh Ratna Marg residence of Tejashwi Yadav.
Earlier, talking to reporters in Kolkata before flying to Patna, Banerjee expressed hope that the opposition meeting would be constructive and asserted that the BJP must be defeated in the next Lok Sabha polls to save the country from disaster.
She said it is due to the policies of the saffron camp that the northeastern state is on the boil and the convening of the all-party meeting on June 24 was a "late decision".
"Tomorrow is our opposition meeting. We hope it will be good and collective decisions will be taken. I feel that to save the country from disaster, people will vote against the BJP," said Banerjee.
