{"id":331358,"date":"2021-03-31T06:32:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T12:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331358"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:51:56","slug":"mamata-banerjee-writes-letter-to-top-opposition-leaders-calls-on-them-to-unite-against-modi-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mamata-banerjee-writes-letter-to-top-opposition-leaders-calls-on-them-to-unite-against-modi-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata Banerjee writes letter to top Opposition leaders, calls on them to unite against Modi govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331359 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/7D8EFCE7-4333-43D7-8013-4C5CE7286B08.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/7D8EFCE7-4333-43D7-8013-4C5CE7286B08.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/7D8EFCE7-4333-43D7-8013-4C5CE7286B08-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>In the middle of West Bengal Assembly Election, TMC Supremo Mamta Banerjee on Wednesday wrote letters to top Opposition leaders, asking them<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>to unite against the BJP and defend democracy in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She shot off letters \u00a0to fifteen leaders of opposition parties including<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Sonia Gandhi, Farooq Abdullah, Akhilesh Yadav, Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar, Jagan Mohan Reddy, MK Stalin, Tejaswi Yadav, Mehbooba Mufti, Arvind Kejriwal, Hemant Soren, Naveen Patnayak highlighting assaults by BJP and Modi\u2019s government on democracy and constitution. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I am writing this letter to convey my serious concerns over a series of assaults by the BJP and its government at the Centre on democracy and constitutional federalism in India,&#8221; Mamata Banerjee wrote in the letter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Accordingly to TMC chief \u201cBJP is trying to establish a \u2018one- party authoritarian rule\u2019 in the country. In her three page letter to all those leader,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>she has written in detail how BJP is misusing central agencies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mamta Banerjee highlighted in her letter &#8220;I strongly believe that the time has come for a united and effective struggle against BJP\u2019s attacks on democracy and the constitution&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She also said \u201c once the assembly election has over than all the parties should come together and present a credible alternative to BJP.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Mamata Banerjee also wrote about the lack of funds given to state governments as well as the shrinking space for them to voice the needs of their people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of West Bengal Assembly Election, TMC Supremo Mamta Banerjee on Wednesday wrote letters to top Opposition leaders, asking them\u00a0 to unite against the BJP and defend democracy in India. She shot off letters \u00a0to fifteen leaders of opposition parties including\u00a0 Sonia Gandhi, Farooq Abdullah, Akhilesh Yadav, Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar, Jagan Mohan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":331361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14014,2917],"tags":[453,14016,1486,14009],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331367,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331358\/revisions\/331367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}