Mission 'federal front': Mamata hates BJP, but doesn't love Congress either

Mamata's Banerjee's four-day visit to Delhi being seen as bid to assemble forces against BJP in the 2019 general elections

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and leaders of some regional parties as well as National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ally Shiv Sena to explore a "federal front" option to take on the BJP in the next Lok Sabha polls, mooting a "one-to-one" fight in all the states.

The TMC supremo sought to rally the regional parties against the NDA even as Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who mooted a non-Congress, non-BJP coalition in national politics, said the alternative being proposed by him would be a "people's front of India".

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