When faced with questions about her Prime Ministerial aspirations for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections in 2024, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said, “If I tell you everything right now, what will I tell later.” 

Her reply was to mediapersons who sought her opinion on whether she would run for the Prime Minister’s post in the General Elections 2024.

Ever since Trinamool registered a thumping victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections 2021, Banerjee has been trying hard to unite the Opposition leaders to challenge the BJP in the next General elections.

In the recent past, Banerjee met some Opposoition leaders, including Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi. However, it seems that the meeting with Gandhi didn’t yield any positive results as an article in TMC’s mouthpiece ‘Jaago Bangla’ in September 2021 had stated that Rahul Gandhi had failed to become an alternative face to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Several TMC leaders have been openly saying that Mamata Banerjee was among the frontrunners for the prime ministerial post in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

Recently, Babul Supriyo, who recently deserted the BJP and joined Trinamool Congress, had cheaper praise on Banerjee saying that she is among the top frontrunners for the prime ministerial post.

Earlier, another TMC leader Manoj Tiwary had tweeted “What Bengal thinks today, India will think tomorrow. Didi will lead the way”.

Banerjee is on a three-day visit to Goa from October 28 evening to take stock of the poll preparations of Trinamool which has announced to contest the Goa Assembly elections slated early next year.

When asked whether TMC’s decision to contest the Goa polls was part of a larger plan of her party’s next Lok Sabha elections, Banerjee said, “We will contest the elections in 2024.”

“We are transparent. We don’t play hide and seek. We are a transparent party,” she asserted.