Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is likely to meet his Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata in an apparent bid to stitch together the anti-BJP grand alliance for the coming parliamentary elections.

Naidu will come to Kolkata to meet Banerjee on November 19, sources said adding he would invite Mamata to join the all-party anti-BJP meeting scheduled to be held in Delhi on November 22, sources said.

The Andhra Chief Minister will meet Mamata on November 19 “strengthen the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance),” TDP spokesperson Lanka Dinakaran said hoping the grand alliance would be a grand success.

“The way things are going it would be a strong alliance with leaders like Mamata Banerjee who is a great leader who fights against the Narendra Modi Government,” Dinakaran said adding “these two leaders together will definitely … oust the Modi Government.”

Sources in the Trinamool Congress said the Bengal Chief Minister was herself keen to see the back of the Modi Government that had “done unprecedented harm to Indian polity, economy and society in its five years’ rule.” Mamata who had earlier projected her Federal Front a proposed anti-BJP alliance had mooted the “one-against-one formula” against the BJP.

“She had herself mooted the idea of an opposition unity and advocated a combined fight against the BJP. She said that the party which strong in a particular place should be allowed to fight against the BJP and other parties should support that party so that the opposition votes do not get divided. In fact this is the formula she used in 2009 and 2011 to defeat the Left Front Government,” said a Bengal Minister.

On whether Mamata would go to Delhi to join the November 22 meeting, the leader said “the Chief Minister being the supreme leader of the party will take the decision.”