Barring the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Biju Janata Dal, leaders from nearly every opposition party, including the Congress, met with the TMC chief at Parliament House to extend their support in the fight against the NRC.
Banerjee also said that if there was infiltration, it is government's failure.
On the Congress' indication of its willingness to accept her candidature as opposition's PM face, she said, "I am not for any chair, our aim is to defeat the BJP".
After the National Registrar of Citizens announced the final draft with names of thousands of people in Assam on Monday, July 30, recognising them as legal citizens of India, political parties have been on a roll slamming the report for leaving out the names of about 40 lakh people.
"They (those in the draft) have been able to establish their credentials before us during rounds of verification that we have carried out". "I have known Advaniji for a long time".
Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has been accusing the BJP of trying to drive out people for political reasons. "Think of the country", she said. On a day when Mamata Banerjie is in Delhi rallying the Opposition around this issue, we ask whether Mamata Banerjee has double standards on this issue given what she has said in the past. "But we do not want it", she said today. As soon as she landed, she launched salvo upon salvo against the BJP for what she termed "playing with fire".
Kuldeep Yadav exposed our batting, admits Eoin Morgan after 1st ODI rout
Meanwhile, Rohit also notched up his 18th ODI century off 82 deliveries as the opener cleared Adil Rashid over long-on. The spinner scalped his fourth victim as he dismissed Buttler with England's scorecard reading 198/5.
Mamata Banerjee with Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan in New Delhi on August 1, 2018.
Banerjee met JD (S) leader Deve Gowda at Karnataka Bhavan and invited him to the rally.
"I went to meet him and enquired about his health", she told reporters.
Earlier in her media interactions in Parliament House complex she sought to downplay questions about who will be the prime ministerial candidate of the Opposition.
Banerjee also appealed to all the opposition parties to send a joint delegation to the Election Commission against EVM tampering and to press for holding polls on ballots. "I am interested in seeing that all parties should work together". While the people in Assam are apprehensive of action, opposition parties have accused the government of targeting Muslims, using illegal migrants as a pretext.
Banerjee 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, suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad, Shiv Sena member Sanjay Raut, 'DMK's Tiruchi Siva, Vijay Sai Reddy of YSRC Party, Misa Bharti and Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav of RJD.
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