Lucknow, May 8 -- In what could be termed a show of solidarity days after the BJP registered a huge win in the West Bengal assembly polls, Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav reached Kolkata on Thursday to meet Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee at her Kalighat residence, where he told her "You have not lost, you fought very well," according to a press release and videos of his visit.

TMC's Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee was also present at the meeting.

Yadav, one of the first INDIA alliance members to meet Mamata Banerjee after the poll results, said afterwards: "I have just met Didi. We remember the time when Didi became the fairly elected chief minister here. Today, all of us will have to stand together agai...