CM Mamata revives efforts to unite oppn, may meet Sonia today

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee renewed opposition unity moves on Tuesday as she met party leaders across the opposition spectrum in Parliament House and said she would like to meet Congress leader Sonia Gandhi before leaving for Kolkata.
"I sent Dinesh da (Trivedi) to the Congress office but she had left by then. But I will speak to her before I leave if there is an opportunity as she is not keeping well," she said. It was later learned that Banerjee will meet Sonia on Wednesday evening.

Asked about Rahul Gandhi, she said, "I am also in touch with him on text messages sometimes." After backing Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi's Rajya Sabha election from Bengal last week, Banerjee's message seemed clear that all opposition parties, "including Congress", should do business together to defeat BJP.