Amaravati, May 8 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP N. Chandrababu Naidu will campaign for the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal on Wednesday and Thursday.
He will address election rallies along with West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee.
Naidu, who is also the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President, left Delhi on Wednesday for Kolkata. He is slated to address election meetings in Jhargram and Haldia later in the day, according to TDP sources here.
He will campaign for the Trinamool in Kharagpur on Thursday.
Banerjee had addressed an election rally of the TDP in Visakhapatnam last month.
Elections to 175-member Andhra Pradesh Assembly and all 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state were held in the first phase on April 10.
After the elections in his state, Naidu had campaigned for Janata Dal-Secular in Karnataka by addressing a few meetings with party chief and former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda and Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy.
It should be noted that Trinamool Congress Supremo and West Bengal Chief Mamata Banerjee in a run-up to the national polls 2019 had visited Andhra Pradesh last month in April. Mamata in Andhra Pradesh addressed several rallies for Andhra Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu last month.
Voting in Andhra Pradesh has already concluded on the first phase of election on April 11. While in West Bengal that sends 42 parliamentarians, voting for national polls is being held in seven phases till May 19.
17 Lok Sabha seats of the state will go to polls in remaining two phases. While voting in 7 seats under phase-V voted on Monday early this week.
In 2014 National polls, TMC bagged 34 seats out of the 42 Lok Sabha Seats. While Congress won 4 seats. While Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and CPM both could not manage to bag 2 seats each.
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