Trinamool skips opposition meet, party chief Mamata to take call on VP nominee Alva on July 21 | India News

NEW DELHI: Leaders of Trinamool Congress, which skipped the opposition meet announcing Congress leader Margaret Alva as the VP nominee, maintained that Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will speak to her MPs on July 21 and that the party’s position would be known only then.

Trinamool skipped the meeting of opposition parties in Delhi on Sunday that announced Congress leader Margaret Alva as their nominee for the vice-president’s post, and did not immediately endorse the proposal. Party leaders maintained that Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee would speak to her MPs on July 21 and TMC’s position would be known only then. Though TMC did not attend the meeting of opposition leaders, the party did send its representative, Lok Sabha leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay, for a meeting convened by Union parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi on the eve of Parliament session.