Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee met Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi at the latter's residence in Delhi on Tuesday, hours before the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) conducted simultaneous searches at her party's central party office in Kolkata and at national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee's Camac Street office.
The two leaders held an hour-long discussion on coordination among the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc constituents at Sonia Gandhi's 10, Janpath, residence. This was the first meeting between the two leaders after a gap of five years.
Mamata Banerjee, who is battling defections both in the assembly and in Parliament, was in the Capital to attend the INDIA bloc meeting on Monday.
The CID raids were part of its probe into the alleged forged signatures of TMC MLAs in favour of Sobhabdeb Chattopadhyay as the Leader of Opposition that triggered rebellion within the party.
