Mamata Banerjee denies calling Amit Shah after TMC loses national party status, vows to resign if rumor is proven true

 

Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, denied rumors on Wednesday that she had called Union Home Minister Amit Shah after the Trinamool Congress lost its national party status. Banerjee vowed to resign if the rumor is proven true and stated that the claim that she had called Shah four times was entirely false. She affirmed that the Trinamool Congress remained a national party, and her party's name would continue to be the All India Trinamool Congress. On April 10, the Election Commission revoked the national party status of the Trinamool Congress, Communist Party of India (CPI), and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), prompting the Trinamool Congress to consider legal remedies to challenge the decision.

Banerjee also stated that anyone spreading such rumors must apologize and that she understands politics very well. She pointed out that four of their MLAs had been arrested by central agencies as part of a conspiracy against her. In response to Mukul Roy's claim that he was not a part of the TMC, Banerjee stated that it was his affair and that he was a BJP MLA. Roy, a founding member of the TMC who joined the BJP in 2017 but returned to the TMC after winning the Krishnanagar North assembly seat on a BJP ticket, said that he was always with the BJP and that he was not even a part of the TMC.

Banerjee also claimed that the BJP is India's most corrupt party and that it will be unable to cross 200 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.