Mamata Banerjee names Nitish Kumar, Hemant Soren, Akhilesh Yadav as 2024 poll allies

“Nitishji, Akhilesh and Hemant...We are together. Politics is a battlefield. We have fought for 34 years,” Mamata declared at a Trinamool preparatory meeting for the 2023 rural polls. Much of the CM’s speech pitted BJP’s alleged use of central agencies to go after rivals .