“They (Congress) broke the alliance and, therefore, I am forced to announce the list of our candidates for all 141 seats in the KMC. There is also no alliance in any district,” said Mamata, while addressing a press conference at her Kalighat residence.

This announcement came following the Congress publishing its list of candidates for 88 seats yesterday. “Our fight will be against both the Congress and the CPM. We hope to win the war with the blessings of people,” Mamata said.

Mamata’s decision followed a series of seat-sharing talks in both Kolkata and Delhi. She even held talks with Keshav Rao, AICC general secretary in-charge of West Bengal, and Ahmed Patel, Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary. But all talks turned futile as Mamata was willing to give only 25 seats while the Congress demanded 55.

The Trinamool chief said her party was all for an alliance and had, therefore, proposed that seats be given according to the number of MPs a party has.

“We offered them 25 seats in Kolkata. But they rejected and announced their own list. We were not offered any seats in districts like Murshidabad and Siliguri. There cannot be a pick-and-choose seat sharing,” she added.