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The Trinamool Congress is very much a part of the Opposition's INDIA bloc, MP Derek O'Brien announced on Sunday amid reports of bickering within the alliance Mamata Banerjee-led party announced its list of candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Benga.ls)..
...All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) is very much was, is and will be part of the INDIA alliance, Derek O'Brien said at a mega INDIA bloc rally in New Delhi's Ramlila Maidan..
The party dropped five of its sitting Lok Sabha members, with West Bengal chief minister and party chairperson Mamata Banerjee naming a raft of new candidates, including former cricketer Yusuf Pathan, who will contest from the Baharampur constituency, which state Congress chief and five-time parliamentarian Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has held since 1999...
At the time, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had criticised the TMC chief and West Bengal chief minister, saying that by announcing all candidates from West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee proved that no political leader or party should trust her..
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, Nationalist Congress Party (SCP) chief Sharad Pawar, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal and former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's wife Kalpana Soren were also present..
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