India, June 10 -- Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday met Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi at the latter's residence in Delhi, 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.

According to people familiar with the matter, 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. In 2021, Banerjee came to meet Gandhi afte...