West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Thursday address a joint rally with Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav in Varanasi, ahead of the last phase of the Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh.
Ms. Banerjee’s visit will coincide with a three-day tour by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This is her second visit to the State; she had spent two days in the first week of February.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) is not contesting the Assembly election in the State, but Ms. Banerjee, in an earlier announcement, had said that her party would be preparing to fight a few seats from here in the general election of 2024. The party began work on building a unit in the State after senior Congress leader Laliteshpati Tripathi joined the TMC.
