Over the past couple of months, the 23-year-old Trinamool Congress (TMC) made it amply evident that it was looking to replace the 136-year-old Congress as the leader of an opposition coalition to take on the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. In the past couple of days, the agenda was made formal, with the TMC rubbishing the very existence of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), which is treated as the main opposition coalition at the national level.