Sanjay Raut asks TMC, NCP (SP) and other splinter groups to merge back into Congress
The Shiv Sena (UBT) leader argued that a strong unified front is essential to challenge the BJP-led NDA
Mumbai, Jun 10 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said the parties like the TMC and NCP (SP) which were once part of the Congress should reunite and strengthen the grand old party.
Such reunification was the "need of the hour", and thinking on these lines was already underway in the Congress and other parties, he claimed.
"We keep talking in private that the constituents which quit the Congress and formed their own parties should come under the Congress flag and make it strong. This is the need of the hour," Raut told reporters here, referring to the Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, the Biju Janata Dal, and some parties from Telangana.
These parties need Congress' help in their respective states, the Rajya Sabha MP said.
"Everyone, may it be leaders or parties, who has left the Congress wants its assistance. So you must come together and make Congress more powerful and give an alternative (to the ruling BJP-led NDA)," he said.
"As per my information, there is some thinking about it in Congress and other parties," Raut added. PTI
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