UP Assembly Election 2022: Mamata Banerjee To Visit Uttar Pradesh, Campaign For Akhilesh Yadav

Mamata Banerjee had also campaigned for Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party in the 2017 assembly polls. 

Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee| Photo: Getty

New Delhi:Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee will embark on a two-day visit to poll-bound Uttar Pradesh today. Her visit to the state is mainly to support the Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2022.

Mamata Banerjee is expected to reach party office in the state capital Lucknow at 5 pm today, where she will hold a press conference and appeal to the people of the state to support the Samajwadi Party and its leader Akhilesh Yadav in the assembly elections 2022. She is also expected to hold a joint rally with Akhilesh.

Banerjee had campaigned for Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party in the 2017 assembly polls. 

Earlier, on February 2, the TMC (Trinamool Congress) chief while addressing the media in West Bengal had said that her party would contest Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh in 2024. "We will fight elections from Uttar Pradesh in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections," said Mamata Banerjee at the press meet.

In Uttar Pradesh, I am not going to contest Assembly polls but I am going to support SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on 8th Feb 2022; we (TMC) will contest from UP in Lok Sabha polls (in 2024): West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee pic.twitter.com/DAZT19mfYk

— ANI (@ANI) February 2, 2022

Bolstered by an exceptional victory in the West Bengal assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee wants her party to emerge as a strong opposition to the BJP at the national level. The TMC is therefore seeking to increase its footprint ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in the state.

She has also made an appeal to all regional parties to join hands in defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party  (BJP) in Uttar pradesh. While speaking to the media in West Bengal on February 2, Banerjee said,  "TMC wants all regional parties to come together and defeat BJP in 2024."

Eelection in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases- February 10, February 14, February 20, February 23, February 27, March 3 and March 7 - for the 403 member strong Assembly.

Counting of the votes to declare the winner will take place on March 10. In the previous assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP had won a complete majority by bagging 312 assembly seats with a vote share of nearly 40 percent.