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The Union home minister has claimed that violence and graft was rampant in West Bengal under Mamata Banerjee.
In separate letters to the two CMs explaining the selection process of the tableaux, the defence minister said it was through this process that tableaux of their states were selected to participate in previous Republic Day parades, including in 2017 and 2019.
The 36-year-old former Bengal captain will gear up for his 17th year in first-class cricket.
Sources close to the development said that Banerjee strongly alleged that the Governor was taking the opportunity to undermine the position of the Speaker among the people.
The alliance between Goa's oldest regional party and the new entrant in state politics comes ahead of TMC chairperson and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to the coastal state on December 13.
The TMC and the Congress have been growing distant of late, with the Mamata Banerjee-led party poaching the latter's leaders in several states in the recent past.
The TMC has inducted several Congress leaders in its fold and recently, 12 out of 17 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya defected to the party.
The Mamata Banerjee-led party, which is on an ambitious expansion plan in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, has approached a few leaders in Kerala.
The development added heft to TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Banerjee's reputation of being a successful, albeit unpredictable, 'political juggernaut', having steam-rolled over BJP's ambition of ruling Bengal in the near future.
Besides Azad, former JDU general secretary Pavan Varma also joined the TMC.