Former Karnataka CM calls on Mamata in Kolkata, discusses ‘way to fight BJP’

Sharing photos of the two leaders, the TMC said in a tweet, “Former CM of Karnataka and @JanataDal_S leader Shri @hd_kumaraswamy called upon Hon’ble CM Smt @MamataOfficial today, in Kalighat, Kolkata.”

The development comes days after Mamata met her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneswar and held discussion on the possibility of forming a non-BJP and non-Congreas coalition.

Earlier, Banerjee had met Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav in Kolkata and held similar talks with him. Sources said meetings with non-BJP and non-Congress leaders are part of her party’s efforts to stitch together an opposition unity with regional parties.

After his arrival in the city, Kumaraswamy dubbed the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as Lok Sabha MP as “political vendetta of the BJP”.

“It is a reflection of the present-day situation and the way the central government is behaving. Everybody knows it. Nobody is surprised about this,” he said.

In 2019, he had attended the meeting of opposition parties convened by Mamata Banerjee ahead of the Lok Sabha poll that year.