Mamata Banerjee declares TMC to go solo in Bengal election, INDIA bloc ally weighs in

Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut said Mamata should have a dialogue with the Congress as the Congress is a major part of the INDIA bloc. A day after West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee ruled out Trinamool Congress alliance with the Congress for the 2026 assembly election, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut insisted that she should “continue to have dialogue” with the Congress.

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The Trinamool Congress chief on Monday blamed the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress for the failure of the Opposition in Delhi and Haryana assembly election, ruling out the possibility of having any alliance with the grand old party for the 2026 West Bengal election.

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Mamata Banerjee’s Confidence in TMC’s 2026 Victory and Sanjay Raut’s Remarks on Congress

Mamata Banerjee also told her legislators and ministers that the TMC will win the 2026 poll on its own with a two-third majority in the 294-seat state assembly.Sanjay Raut, a leader from Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena, noted that Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress has always contested Lok Sabha or Vidhan Sabha elections independently. However, he suggested that since the Congress is a huge part of the INDIA bloc, the TMC supremo “should always continue to have a dialogue with Congress”.

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