00:05And our day before opposition's mega Ramleela Maidan rally,
00:10Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee met up with CJP Premier Abhijit Dipke in Delhi.
00:17Now the CJP or the Kokoro Janata Party has already extended its support to the India bloc
00:22for its mega campaign for tomorrow.
00:25And this meeting is also extremely interesting because Abhijit Dipke met up with India bloc leader.
00:32Mamata Banerjee today, what exactly does the meeting mean?
00:36What are the political connotations of it?
00:39There is much to analyze here.
00:41But let's listen to what Mamata Banerjee said about this meeting.
00:47We express our solidarity to their support.
00:50They also extended their support for the tomorrow's program.
00:53It is, I am so proud of them.
00:57Not only me, all the young generation students, they are the pioneers and they are the founders of this movement.
01:05So they have supported their, extended their full support for tomorrow's rally.
01:10We extended all support to them also.
01:13And we should not forget the pioneers of this movement, SIR, we are.
01:17And this election commission issue, they are the pioneers and they are the founders.
01:24That we must remember.
01:25I have come to say thank you for the time of this movement.
01:28Because as far as they have supported our first discussion, she was always stood strongly with the youth movement.
01:35So I just wanted to really, really thank her from the bottom of my heart.
01:38Also when Saurav and Ashutosh were arrested illegally by the Delhi police even then,
01:43Didi stood with us very firmly and that is why I just wanted to express my gratitude to her.
01:48And thank you, Didi, for supporting the youth of this country.
01:52Our protest today is going to be a full summit.
01:55We support that in solidarity.
01:59And joining us now is India Today's Amit Bharadwaj.
02:03Amit, how do you really analyze this meeting between Abhijit Dipke and Mahmata Banerjee in Delhi?
02:14I'm giving you, if you ask me, you know, this particular meeting was in the pipeline for quite a while.
02:19If you would remember the July movement as well, Mahmata Banerjee was expected to join Abhijit Dipke, Ashutosh and Saurav
02:27Dashe's platform, CJP's protest at Jantar Mantar.
02:30But the protest got over and Mr. Dharmain Pradhan had a step down.
02:35So that particular program was cancelled because before Mahmata Banerjee could release national capital, the agitation got over.
02:44So after that, there have been back-channel talks between the Federal Congress leadership, be it Mamata Banerjee or Abhijit
02:50Banerjee for that matter.
02:52I'm aware through my sources as to how these back-channel talks were happening.
02:57And many opposition parties had expressed their solidarity with the CJP.
03:02And because Mahmata Banerjee is in the national capital right now, for tomorrow's India Block rally at Ramil Ahmedan, you
03:12know, this particular meeting has been conducted.
03:15Derek O'Brien has also served as one of key communicators, rather, between CJP and the Federal Congress.
03:23But my sources have also confirmed me that even in the past, you know, there have been communications that were
03:29made through Mahmata Banerjee's office,
03:31as well as Abhishek Banerjee's office, expressing if at all, because there was a plan of CJP to go country
03:38-wide against CEC, Ganesh Kumar,
03:40have a long, you know, run-up of agitation and then come to the national capital.
03:45So, logistically as well and in terms of resources as well, as we have seen, several opposition parties coming together
03:52and extending their support in CEC to CJP.
03:55So, that communications were made.
03:56So, this meeting is happening eventually in the national capital a day before, rather than evening before the mega rally
04:05of the opposition at Ramilaga.
04:07Right. Thank you very much, Amit, for those details.
