Seat-sharing key to INDIA bloc's success in 2024 Lok Sabha polls: Mamata Banerjee

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Talking about strategy for Lok Sabha polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday that seat sharing is the key to success in the coming Lok Sabha polls and had the seat sharing been done by the Opposition INDIA bloc in the three states - Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh - they would have not been defeated...

She reaffirmed that the INDIA bloc will work together in the 2024 polls, learning lessons from the assembly polls defeat in three states...

"If seat sharing is done in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, BJP would not win," Banerjee said...

Meanwhile, Trinamool National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee observed that following BJP's defeat in multiple assembly elections in 2018, they had claimed that the 'results will not affect the Lok Sabha polls of 2019..

"If we go by their logic, then even this election results in three states will not affect the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections..

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