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Lucknow, Dec 5 (PTI) Trinamool Congress president Mamata Banerjee is expected to visit Varanasi next month amid indication that her party will support Akhilesh Yadav"s Samajwadi Party in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
"Didi has already said in Delhi that if Akhilesh Yadav needs our help, we are ready to extend help.
The gesture of senior SP leader Jaya Bachchan seeking votes for the TMC during the West Bengal Assembly elections will be reciprocated in Uttar Pradesh," said Laliteshpati Tripathi, who recently joined the TMC.
"The target is the same and we have to leave no stone unturned to ensure that these forces (led by the BJP) are defeated.
We are also with SP chief Akhilesh ji in his fight," Tripathi told PTI on Sunday.
He said Banerjee would visit Varanasi probably around the second week of January.