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Mamata meeting Modi 'desperate attempt' to split anti-TMC votes, says BJP

The BJP had secured 18 of the 42 seats in West Bengal in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, just four less than the ruling TMC

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee during a meeting in Kolkata | Photo: PTI

Press Trust of India
West Bengal BJP on Monday termed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the city and her decision to "back out" of the opposition meeting in New Delhi as "desperate attempts" to divide anti-TMC votes in the state.

According to senior state BJP leaders, Banerjee giving the opposition meeting convened by interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi a miss was a "well-calculated move to give oxygen to the Congress and CPI(M) in Bengal, which are on their political death beds".

"She (Banerjee) deliberately wants to send out a message that something is