Opposition leaders will meet to decide on common minimum programme: Mamata

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, February 14

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said the Opposition leaders will meet tentatively on February 26 or 27 to decide on the common minimum programme for the putative pre-poll alliance.

The decision on the alliance was taken at a meeting of Opposition leaders yesterday.

Escalating her tiff with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah, Banerjee said Rafale and demonetisation are the biggest scams of the country, and issued a dire threat of necessary action after the change of government at the Centre, which, she added is a certainty.

Even if opposition parties would contest against each other in states due to compulsion of local politics, there will a pre-poll alliance at national level to defeat the BJP in the coming general elections, she said.

She pitched for dominant parties in the states in taking the lead to defeat the BJP.

With regard to the prime ministerial candidate of the united Opposition, she said it will be decided post-election.