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New Delhi:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to meet several opposition leaders today including former Congress President Sonia Gandhi as she gears up to take the ruling BJP head on in the run up to 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Ms Banerjee, who began her three-day visit to Delhi on Tuesday, visited the parliament to meet the opposition leaders before she met Ms Gandhi at her residence in the evening at around 5 pm. She might also meet former prime minister HD Devegowda and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the evening.
Ms Banerjee is planning an anti-BJP rally in January next year where she plans to bring the opposition parties together against the ruling government.
Here are highlights of Mamata Banerjee's Delhi visit
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today. The two leaders discussed political strategies for 2019 general elections. The meeting went on for 35 minutes, but they did not speak to the media.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the national capital today. After the meeting, she said: "We discussed current politics and the possibility of all of us contesting elections together in future. We also discussed the NRC issue in Assam."
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday met former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda at Karnataka Bhawan in the national capital.
Mamata Banerjee in the parliament house, met Congress leaders Ahmed Patel and Ghulam Nabi Azad, Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav, AIADMK leader M. Thambidurai, Kerala Congress-Mani leader Jose K. Mani and suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad, news agency IANS reported. She also met senior BJP leader LK Advani.
"Calling all Bangladeshis 'ghuspetis' (intruders) is wrong... Bangladesh is not an illegal country," Mamata Banerjee said today, taking a dig at BJP chief Amit Shah, who had repeatedly used the term in his address to the media yesterday.
After partition so many people came from Pakistan... Nepal is also our neighbour... we must remember that. Borders are not with state governments but with the center," she added, implying that the responsibility for securing the area also belongs to the Centre. Read the full story here.
Mamata Banerjee continued to attack the central government over the Assam citizen list for the third consecutive day. "National Register of Citizens is a global issue," she said
Is she aware that there are a lot of illegal immigrants in West Bengal? As it is what is happening in West Bengal today, is it any less than bloodbath or civil war? Doesn't she know that every other day BJP workers are being killed: BJP's Rupa Ganguly
Mamata Banerjee has been vehemently criticising the central government ever since Assam released the second draft of its citizenship list. Nearly 40 million people have been included in the citizen list and Ms Banerjee asked Tuesday "where will these people go"? She even said the draft may lead to a "civil war".
Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday held meetings with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and MP Sharad Pawar and his daughter MP Supriya Sule, besides Ram Jethmalani, Yashwant Sinha and Satrugan Sinha, news agency IANS reported.
